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HISTORY 



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CLASS OF 1874 

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Preface. 

44 West Thirty-sixth Street. 
Classmates : 

This volume is the result of work undertaken in conformity 
with your instructions given at the reunion in 1894. Its pages 
contain all the facts, appropriate for such a work, that our most 
strenuous efforts have been able to secure. Its defects are, in 
part, such as will always be found in similar reports until Dart- 
mouth alumni awake to an appreciation of the importance to the 
college of such records, and of their own indifference to the in- 
terest of their Alma Mater. Its further defects are such as you 
must have foreseen when electing a secretary and hence agreed 
to accept. 

The arrangement of names by departments was adopted as that 
with which we were familiar when in college. That the records for 
the scientific men are less complete is due to the lack of frequent 
reports in the earlier years, which, for the academic division have 
furnished valuable and otherwise unobtainable information. The 
steel engraving which forms the frontispiece was found among 
the papers of my beloved father. I take pleasure in presenting 
it to you as from him. Despite the discouragements which have 
attended this work, it has not been without its recompense in the 
renewal of old friendships and an insight of the matured charac- 
ters of the men of '74. The class may justly be proud of what 
this record shows it has accomplished. Aside from three, the 
victims of disease, no man has done less, while many have done 
more than their college course prophesied. On this our twenty- 
fifth birthday we lay our trophies at the feet of our Alma Mater, 
and gather, in her honor, the largest proportionate representation 
ever known at Dartmouth. 

Charles E. Ouimby, 
New York, June 1, 1899. Secretary. 



ACADEMIC CLASS 



JOHN ADAMS AIKEN, V.Y. 

John A. Aiken comes of a family which, in its several branches, 
has for many years been prominent in Massachusetts and New 
Hampshire. His father, David Aiken, of the class of 1830, after 
his marriage to Mary Elizabeth Adams of Amherst, Mass., passed 
his life as a lawyer and on the bench at Greenfield, Mass., where 
Aiken was born, September 16, 1850. He was fitted at Phillips, 
Andover, under Dr. Taylor, and entered Dartmouth with the 
class of '73. 

At the end of Junior year he left college and, returning to 
Greenfield, was engaged in teaching for a year. Having regained 
his strength in '73, he returned to join the class of '74. On gradu- 
ation he began, or rather resumed, the study of law under his 
father's direction. During the following two years he took one 
course at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Mas- 
sachusetts bar in 1876. He at once began practice at his home, 
where he still remains. A strong love for nature very early 
ied him to become interested in agricultural development, and in 
the first year after leaving college he was made secretary of the 
Franklin County Agricultural Society. This position he filled 
for two years, and has continued to manifest his interest in this 
work even since his appointment to the bench, by accepting asso- 
ciated offices requiring less labor when professional demands upon 
his time became more exacting. In 1883 he represented his 
district in the Massachusetts Legislature, serving on the Probate 
and Chancery Committee and the Committee on Public Educa- 
tion. In 1 89 1 he was elected, by an unprecedented majority, 
District Attorney for the counties of Franklin and Hampden, 
serving in this office for six years. On September 16, 1898, he 
was appointed by Gov. Walcott a Justice of the Supreme Court 
of Massachusetts, a court commonly known in Massachusetts as 
the Dartmouth Club. 

Aiken was married March 5, 1895, to Miss Maria Willard 
Dickenson, of Baltimore, Md., to whose charms and worth "Jack" 
pays this characteristic (and just) tribute: "And she has lived 
with me ever since, which is more than some could do." 



FRED. LYMAN ALLEN, A.A.&. 

Fred. L. Allen was born on July 7, 1848, at White River 
Junction, Vt, where his father, Samuel J. Allen, was in 1874 a 
prominent physician, with an extensive general and consultation 
practice. His mother, Mary Jane Lyman, was of an old New 
England family widely known in northern Vermont. Allen's 
preparation was under the tuition of the Rev. Mr. Edwards of 
West Lebanon. On leaving college he entered Andover Theolog- 
ical Seminary, from which he was graduated in June, 1877. In 
the following September he was ordained pastor of the Congrega- 
tional Church at Walpole, N. H. The sermon on this occasion 
was delivered by Prof. Henry E. Parker of Dartmouth. He 
lemained at Walpole until 1884, when he accepted a call to Hen- 
niker, where he was a pastor for twelve years. On leaving Hen- 
niker in 1896 he returned to the old Lyman homestead at White 
River Junction to reside with his brother. Allen was married on 
June 19, 1878, at Cambridge, Mass., to Miss Adelaide Merrill, a 
daughter of Rev. Josiah Merrill, of the class of 1841, Dartmouth. 
He has two children, a son, born June 11, 1880, and a daughter, 
born May 22, 1884. 



HORATIO NELSON ALLIN, Jr., K.K.K. 

Horatio N. Allin, Jr., was born August 7, 1848, in Guildhall, 
Vt., where his father was a farmer. He began his preparation 
for college at the high school of Lancaster, N. H., but completed 
his course at the Academic Seminary in Gorham, Me. His first 
experience as a teacher, in the winter of '68, was repeated in '72 
and '73 at Lancaster, N. H., and on "the Cape." Allin has been 
the only one, from a goodly number who might have done so, 
to hint at interruptions of the harmonious relations between him- 
self and the faculty, when in '71 he was for a brief period con- 
nected with McGill College in Montreal, Can. On the 27th of 
September following graduation he was married to Miss Carrie 
Hall Mayberry, of Edgartown, Mass., a daughter of Edwin May- 
berry, M.D., a graduate of Bowdoin. Starting their bridal tour 
at the White Mountains of New Hampshire, it led him through 
Chicago and the larger cities of the West to California. From 
there he crossed the Pacific to China and Japan. While in Yoko- 
hama he met Prof. C. A. Young, and through his influence ac- 
cepted the chair of Instructor in Law in the Royal University at 
Tokio, Japan, where he began teaching after visiting Hong Kong, 
Canton, and other cities of China. This position he retained for 
three years, and in '78 returned to America. Soon after this he 
began the study of law at the Harvard Law School, and in 1879 
opened an office in Waltham, Mass., and later in Boston, where 
he is now located at No. 1 Beacon street. At first he was asso- 
ciated with Willard Harland of Boston, and S. W. McCall of '74. 
His firm at present is "Allin, Piper & Harris," the last two being 
Dartmouth graduates of '94. Allin's residence is in Waltham, 
Mass. He has no children. 



ALEXANDER RUSSELL ARCHIBALD, 8.A.X. 

Alexander R. Archibald, the genial Hercules and one of the 
class elders, entered life under the flag of England in Halifax 
County, Nova Scotia, on July 2J, 1847. His father, Matthew 
Archibald, a sturdy Scotchman, kept his son under the paternal 
eye in the free life of a farmer until his twentieth year, when 
Alexander entered Kimball Union Academy at Meriden, N. H., 
to prepare for college. Entering with the class in 1870, he began 
in Freshman winter the Dartmouth man's best training by teach- 
ing at North Hartland, Vt. This training was continued suc- 
cessive winters of the college course at East Hanover, Washing- 
tonville, N. Y., and East Jaffrey, N. H. Such an experience nat- 
urally led to the adoption of teaching as a profession, and for the 
first two years after graduation he was principal of the high 
school at Glencoe, Minn. The following year he became com- 
mandant of a military academy at Lake Calhoun, Minn., a po- 
sition which we may justly assume was obtained by reason of his 
training under Capt. Home. In 1877 he established at Minneap- 
olis, Minn., under his own direction as proprietor, a mercantile 
academy. This institution became recognized as one of the most 
thorough and successful business colleges in the West. In 1888 
Archibald telinquished this work, the college still retaining his 
name, to take up more general business enterprises, which, by 
reason for his previous investments, were largely in real estate 
transactions in connection with the development of his own hold- 
ings. Incidentally he became interested, both financially and as 
an official, in building and loan associations, and later in mining. 
Under the financial depression of the following years he was led 
to abandon business for his former occupation, and about '92 
again established a business college in Minneapolis, where he 
still remains, attended by similar success in his work. In 1877 
he was married to Miss Sadie J. Appleton, a former pupil at 
Glencoe, Minn. In 1898 he reports one son eighteen years of 
age, just finishing his studies preparatory for college. "Archie" 
says peace and piosperity rest in a home which he has called 
his own for seventeen years. He may be found at 16 South Fifth 
street, Minneapolis, Minn. 



CHARLES WELLING BADGLEY, A.K.E. 

Charles W. Badgley, whose father, Peter Welling Badgley, 
was a merchant of Milwaukee, Wis., entered life in that city on 
the 24th of April, 1852. After completing the work in the 
graded schools he began his preparation for college at the Mil- 
waukee Academy. This course was supplemented by a brief term 
at East Hampton, N. H., previous to entering college. On gradu- 
ation he returned to his home in Milwaukee and for a year was 
employed in a wholesale grocery house. In 1875 he was at- 
tracted to Colorado, where for three years he engaged in mining 
and allied enterprises. Returning to Milwaukee in 1878 he first, 
and for some time devoted himself to the brokerage business. 
Meantime he became interested in metal manufacturing, to which 
he later gave his entire attention. This led very naturally and 
directly to his second removal to Colorado in 1885, when he es- 
tablished at Denver the firm of Badgley & Watkins, manufac- 
turers and dealers in mining machinery and all forms of miners', 
plumbers', and machinists' supplies. His letterhead of 1889 shows 
a large three-story warehouse devoted to their business. In 1896 
Badgley sold his interest in this firm and has since been occupied 
with the care of former investments and the prosecution of va- 
rious mining enterprises in Colorado. He was married Septem- 
ber 28, 1881, to Miss Bessie Bingham of Milwaukee. Their 
first child, a son, born in July, '82, lived but three months. They 
now have four children, Annette, born October 6, 1883; Charles 
W., Jr., born March 27, 1885; Franklin Ilsley, born November 
2y, 1886, and Jerome Bingham, born October 3, 1888. Badgley's 
address is still Denver, Co!. 



ORRIN GAY BAKER, A.K.E. 

Orrin G. Baker, whose father, John Baker, was a farmer in 
Derry, N. H., was born on December 23, 1847. His early edu- 
cation was gained in his native town, where he also prepared 
lor college at the Pinkerton Academy. He first entered Dart- 
mouth with the class of 1873. Being compelled to leave during 
Sophomore year, he returned to join the class of '74 in the Fall 
cf '72. Like so many others, Baker was engaged in teaching 
both before and during his college course. His schools were in 
Londonderry, Derry, and Hartford, Vt. He entered Andover 
Theological Seminary in the fall of '74, and after graduation in 
1877 became the acting pastor of the Congregational Church 
at Jamaica, Vt., in January, 1878, where he was ordained in Feb- 
ruary following. This charge he retained until 1886, when he 
removed to East Fairfield, Vt. His connection with the church 
in this place continued until May, 1888, when he was called to 
West Charlestown, Vt. He remained here for six years, filling 
not only his own pulpit, but also supplying a vacancy in the 
church at Morgan, Vt. In 1892 he accepted a call to the church 
in Ferrisburg, Vt., where he still remains the ever-faithful pastor, 
in May, 1883, he was married to Miss Alida M. Barnes, of Wal- 
pole, N. H. They have eight children ; Harrison and John, born 
in Jamaica; Eliza, born at East Fairfield; Paul, Stella, and Ed- 
ward, born at Charlestown, and Faith and Orrin, born at Ferris- 
burg, Vt. 



FRANK OTIS BALDWIN, ¥.T. 

Frank O. Baldwin was born at Maiden, Mass., August 25, 
1853. Six months later his father, Otis Lincoln Baldwin, a shoe 
manufacturer, removed to Lynn, in the high school of which place 
Baldwin received his preparation for college. Since graduation 
his life has been devoted entirely to teaching. He was at New 
Providence, Iowa, from December, 1874, to March, 1875, and 
then at Eldora until July, 1875. In Sept., '75 he was appointed 
Superintendent of Schools at Webster City, Iowa, where he re- 
mained until April, 1879. The following year, '79 to '80, he 
was principal of the Cobbet Grammar School at Lynn, Mass., and 
for the next two years held the same position in the Lynn High 
School. In 1882 he established the Lee Hall Classical and Com- 
mercial School, of which he was the proprietor and principal until 
t888. From 1888 to 1894 he was at the head of the Punchard 
Free School in Andover, Mass. This place he relinquished for 
the school year of '94 and '95 to become classical master in the 
(Jniversity School for Boys in Baltimore, Md., but returned to 
his former position at Andover in 1895, where he still remains. 

During his residence in Lynn he was a member of the School 
Committee for three years and chairman for one year. At An- 
dover he held the same office for the five years previous to the 
year spent in Baltimore. 

Baldwin was married on July 3, 1877, to Miss Mary Dianthe 
Dudley. His oldest child, Ralph Dudley Baldwin, was born Sep- 
tember 13, 1880. A second son, Arthur Frank, born August 30, 
1883, died in November, 1884. A daughter, Florence Lavinia, 
was born September 26, 1885. 



ELIEL SHUMWAY BALL, 0.A.X. 

Eliel S. Ball was born in Townsend, Mass., March 27, 1848, 
where his father, Noah Ball, was a leading business man. To 
the regular academic training for college which he received at 
the Lawrence Academy in Groton, Mass., he added that of teaclv 
ing during the Winter of '69 and '70 at Shirley, Mass. His col- 
lege course was similarly supplemented each Winter. He had 
charge of the school at West Groton, Mass., in 1870, at Oxford 
in 1 87 1, at Jaflrey, N. H., in 1873, an d in 1874 relieved Prof. 
Barrows of Meriden for a time. He was the captain of the class 
nine for a year, and an editor of the Dartmouth. On leaving 
college he was appointed Professor of Mathematics and Sciences 
in the Lawrence Academy at Groton, Mass., and three years later 
became its principal. In 1881 he resigned his position at Groton 
to accept that of Superintendent of Schools at Bradford, Pa. He 
remained there but a year, and in 1882 received a similar appoint- 
ment over the schools of Westerly, R. I. About 1887 he gave 
up his school work, in part probably on account of his health, 
and, moving to Waltham, Mass., opened a book and stationery 
store. No particulars of his death, which occurred at Waltham, 
January 12, 1892, are obtainable. A love which started in his 
boyhood and was cherished ever afterward, culminated in his en- 
gagement during senior year and his marriage on August 4, 1875. 
to Miss Elia F. Sawin of Townsend, Mass., a graduate of Mt 
Holyoke Seminary. Their first child, Rosa Julia, born July 14 
1876, and a second, Arthur Watson, born February 18, 1878, both 
died of diphtheria in 1880. A second son was born February 
17, 1886. 



JAMES CROCKER BARRETT, A.K.E. 

James C. Barrett was born in Woodstock, Vt., on December 
21, 185 1, where his father, Hon. James Barrett, LL.D., of the 
class of 1838, had for many years been a lawyer and judge of wide 
reputation. Barrett received his preparatory education in the 
schools at Woodstock, supplemented undoubtedly by the teach- 
ings of his father, whose character was clearly reproduced in 
the son. His health was far from good when he entered college, 
but his New England pluck supplied the force to carry him 
through. On graduation he at once began the study of law in 
Woodstock, but in the Fall of '76 was forced by ill health to take 
a rest, and nearly a year was spent in travel in Europe. Soon 
after his return he began the practice of his profession at Rut- 
land, Vt. Success was not delayed, and Barrett soon became a 
lawyer of established reputation. In 1882 his father removed 
to Rutland and became the senior member with his son in the 
legal firm of Barrett & Barrett. In June, 1878, Barrett was mar- 
ried to Miss Mary A. Whitney of Woodstock. His son, Freder- 
ick J., was born in 1880, and a daughter, Ruth, in 1882. On the 
evening of February 14, 1887, occurred the accident which result- 
ed in his death. With his wife and a friend he went to a tobog- 
gan slide for an evening's sport. In some unknown manner one 
of the boards forming the side guard to the chute had been 
broken, and a pointed fragment turned into the track. As Bar- 
rett's party descended, Mrs. Barrett, who was in front, passed 
the board unharmed. The friend, coming next, was struck and 
Feverely injured. The shock threw Barrett from the toboggan 
against the board, which, striking the lower part of the abdomen, 
was driven through his body with the point protruding from the 
back near the spine. Soon after his wound had been dressed 
Barrett regained full consciousness, which he retained until just 
before his death on the following evening. Such an event, how- 
ever humble the victim, could not fail to excite universal sympa- 
thy and sorrow. In this case it justified the freest expressions 
in eulogy of the dead, for Barrett had gained, by strength of 
character and mind, universal respect and admiration. It is un- 
necessary to quote from the many public tributes to his 
character and ability, for no utterances at such a time can do such 
honor to his memory as is found in the position accorded him 
when alive. We do Barrett but scant justice in saying that his 
life had been such that those who knew him but little, equally with 
those who knew him most intimately, were ever eager and glad 
to do him honor and to make public expression of their appre- 
ciation of his intellectual power and nobility of character. 



ALFRED WaDLEIGH BEASLEY, ¥.T. 

Alfred W. Beasley, according to the college records, is a son 
of Nathaniel K. Beasley, and was born March 2J, 1853. He en- 
tered college from Peoria, 111., where, it is presumed, he gained 
his preparation in the high school. Our only knowledge of his 
life since graduation has been derived from classmates and acci- 
dental sources. His persistent refusal of all information concern- 
ing himself may fairly indicate the change in his character, since 
the days when he was the genial classmate and affectionate friend, 
although he has by no means become a morbid recluse. Previous 
to 1880 nothing was known of his doings except that he was liv- 
ing in Peoria. At that date Moore reports having seen him in 
June, 1878; that he had been married about six months and 
was then in the hide and leather business with his father. He 
certainly was in the hide-and-seek business with Scott. A later 
report states that he was married in '76 and had ('78) one child. 
Another of about the same date refers to him as having been for 
some time instructor in mathematics in the Peoria High School, 
and speaks of his popularity and a general desire that he should 
become the principal. In June, 1889, ne was elected to that po- 
sition, which he still retains. For some time after graduation he 
was much interested and took a prominent part in athletic sports. 
At the Western races (date unknown) he was stroke of the win- 
ning crew and also took first prize in the junior single scull race. 
When last heard of he had two children. 



FERDINAND BLANCH ARD, W.Y. 

Ferdinand Blanchard was born on the 8th of November, 1851, 
at West Windsor, Vt. His preparatory education, as gained at 
the Montpelier Graded School and the Vermont Conference Semi- 
nary, was supplemented by a winter's teaching at Moretown, Vt., 
in '68-'69. He also taught during Junior winter at Brownsville, 
Vt. For a short time after graduation he was engaged in intro- 
ducing school books through his native State. After a severe 
illness in October, 1874, he began the study of medicine at Han- 
over, graduating in the Fall of 'jj. Having been married in April, 
1875, to Miss Alice G. White, of Woodstock, Vt., he made West 
Windsor his home for a time while studying, where he was Super- 
intendent of Schools as well as a member and treasurer of the 
School Committee. In 1876 he moved to Hanover, locating on 
College street. At this time, as well as later on, he found time to 
do some thoroughly scientific work in botany, aside from his pro- 
fessional studies. At a celebration in his native town, July 4, 
1877, he read a short poem, entitled "Remember the Fathers." 

Directly upon the receipt of his degree of M.D. he began the 
practice of his profession at Union Village, Vt. This choice of 
a location reveals the character of the man most clearly. With 
a mind naturally inclined to scientific work and undoubtedly fitted 
for a wider field, lack of confidence, apparently, in himself led him 
to this obscure place. 

In July, 1879, Blanchard moved to Peacham, Vt. Here he 
attained deserved success to the limits possible in a country town. 
Just how long he remained in Peacham is uncertain, for here 
the record is broken. In 1890 he was known to be in Washington, 
where he was connected with the Census Bureau. It was in 
Washington that his death, of which we have no particulars, oc- 
curred in December, 1892. The honor of having captured the 
first of life's coveted prizes rests with Blanchard, for to his daugh- 
ter, Mabel Julia, born January 31, 1876, was presented the class 
cup at the reunion in 1877. His other children were Clair M., 
born November 16, 1877; Ida W., born August 31, 1879; Linn 
R., born June 17, 1881, and William G., born June 18, 1888. In 
the spring of 1880 his entire family suffered an attack of malig- 
nant diphtheria, from which his three daughters died. To Blan- 
chard is due also the unique honor of being the only man in the 
class to render a "quid pro quo" beyond the traditional three dol- 
lars on receiving his master's degree. This was a poem, entitled 
"Master of Arts." As Blanchard is, so far as known, the only 
poet in the class, this poem is given later, as presented for the 
master's degree. 




TO ASCUTNEY. 19.73 MILES. 




MARY HITCHCOCK MEMORIAL HOSPITAL. 



HENRY GREEN BRAINERD, A.AjP. 

Henry G. Brainerd is a son of Timothy G. and Lucinda 
(Dewey) Brainerd, and was born May 23, 1852, at Londonderry, 
N. H., where his father, a graduate of Yale in 1830, was pastor of 
a Congregational church. In 1855 his father moved to Halifax, 
Mass., and later, in 1867, to Grinnell, Iowa. Here Brainerd en- 
tered Iowa College, leaving at the end of sophomore year to join 
the class of '74 at Dartmouth, in the Fall of '71. He also, was a 
teacher, both before and during his college course. The first 
year after graduation he was a principal and superintendent of 
schools at Independence, Iowa. In 1875 ne began the study of 
medicine, first at the Iowa State University and later at Rush 
Medical College in Chicago, where he graduated in February, 
1878. During his medical course he was connected for a year 
('76-77) with a hospital for the insane at Mount Pleasant, Iowa. 
After spending a short time in special studies he became assistant 
physician in a similar institution at Independence, and in 1881 
was made first assistant. In 1887 he resigned this position and 
began general practice at Los Angeles, California, where he still 
continues. 

Soon after settling in Los Angeles he was appointed to the 
chair of mental and nervous diseases in the Los Angeles Medical 
College, which is a department of the University of Southern 
California. He is now dean of that institution. 

For some years he was superintendent of the city and county 
hospital and has been president of the County, and vice-president 
of the State MeHical Society. He was married September 3, 
1887, to Miss Fannie Howard of Chicago, a graduate of Abbott 
Academy at Andover, Mass. They have two sons, seven and nine 
years of age. 



EDWARD JOSIAH BROWN, 0.A.X. 

Edward J. Brown, the son of Ira and Emily (Clark) Brown 
was born Jan. 14, 1851, in Burke, Vt., where his father, a physician 
andgraduate of Castleton, Vt., was in practice until 1865, when he 
removed to Wells River. Brown was prepared for college at 
Kimball Union Academy. During his college course he joined the 
great majority as a teacher for two winters. In Senior year, 
with the view of becoming a civil engineer, he took special work in 
that line, which resulted in trouble with his eyes that has been more 
or less constant ever since. On graduation he went West and taught 
for a term at Eden Prairie, Minn. He was later engaged in busi- 
ness in Melrose, Minn. From there he went to Paducah,Ky.,and 
to obtain rest for his eyes, engaged in canvassing. In July, 1876, 
he returned to Wells River and began the study of medicine. He 
remained there, aside from the time given to lectures at Hanover, 
until he went to New York, for his final course, where he gradu- 
ated at the New York University in 1879. In the Spring of 1879 
he began practice at Littleton, N. H., where he remained for a 
year. He was then four years at Haverhill, N. H. 

With the cessation of some family obligations holding him in 
the East, he removed in 1882 to Minneapolis, Minn., where he 
established himself in practice. He soon took up the specialty of 
diseases of the eye and ear, in which he has attained a most 
pleasing success. As a citizen he has been active in all enterprises 
directed to the suppression of immorality, and was instrumental 
not only in organizing a society for this purpose, but also in secur- 
ing legislation to the same end. In 1888, he became connected 
with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Minneapolis as 
professor of preventive medicine and lecturer on diseases of the 
eye. In the same year he did some work in the line of his spe- 
cialty in New York, which was continued later in Europe. Brown 
does not fail to take a vacation each year, a part of which is usually 
spent in the East In April, 1890, he was married to Miss Mary 
Peck Fullerton, a native of Montpelier, Vt. They have three 
children, Edward T., born Sept. 3, 1891 ; John C, bora Oct. 24, 
1892, and Emily C, born Oct. 15, 1895. 



CHARLES FRELINGHUYSEN CASWELL, A.K.E. 

Charles Frank Caswell, as the name stood in the catalogue, was 
a son of Cornelius E. Caswell, a farmer of Strafford, N. H., and 
Betsey Thurston Chase . He was born in Strafford May 10, 185 1, 
where he lived until 1858, when his father removed to Dover. His 
preparatory studies were begun at Franklin Academy, of that city, 
and completed at the Northwood Seminary. In July after grad- 
uation he entered the law office of N. M. Hawkes in Lynn, Mass., 
where he continued his studies until admitted to the bar in Septem- 
ber, 1877. He at once began practice in Lynn. Four years later, 
he laid aside law and going to Colorado was for the next four years 
interested in mining at various places in that State. In the Fall of 
1885, finding this occupation unsatisfactory, he resumed the prac- 
tice of law at Grand Junction, Colorado, where he still may be 
found. He was married May 7, 1891, to Miss Jessie Tenney 
Gray, a daughter of B. Gray, Esq., of Kansas City, a graduate 
of Ann Arbor. They have no children. 



JOSEPH LEWIS CAVERLY, K.K.K. 

Joseph L. Caverly, son of John S. Caverly, a farmer of Barring- 
ton, N. H., was born in that town on March 15, 1850. His early 
education was gained in the schools of his native place, and his 
final preparation for college at New Hampton Academy. 

He began teaching before entering college and continued this 
work each winter of his course, at Madbury, N. H., Lebanon, 
Conn., Amesbury, Mass., and in the famous schools of Salisbury, 
Mass. On graduation he adopted teaching as his life work, and 
was first at Strafford, N. H. in the Fall of 1874; then at Gloucester, 
Mass., in the Winter of 1874 and 1875, and again at Salisbury, in 
the Spring of 1875. In April, 1875, he went to New Market, N. H., 
in charge of the high school. After four years in this place in 
Sept., 1879, ne was appointed sub-master of the Rice Training 
School of Boston, Mass. This connection he still retains. From 
1879 t0 J 888 he resided in Boston, since which time his home has 
been in Newton, Mass., where Davis and Powers are also to be 
found. In the Summer of 1887 he spent two months of travel in 
Europe. Caverly was married Nov. 29, 1877, to Miss Mary 
Cecilia O'Connor. They have had seven children: Marion C, 
born Oct. 12, 1878; died in Jan., 1881 ; Monica M., born July, 
1883; Constance F., born Sept., 1888; Edith M., born March, 
1890; Frances, born July 10, 1892; died, April, 1893; Reginald 
C, born April, 1894, and Francis M., born March, 1896. 



HENRY FRANCIS CHASE. 

Henry F. Chase was born on Dec. 5, 1852, at Lynn, Mass., 
where his father, George H. Chase, was engaged in business. His 
early studies were in the graded schools, and his college prepara- 
t ion was gained at the high school in his native city. After grad- 
uation he returned to Lynn and in company with Caswell began 
the study of law. On the completion of these studies he was ad- 
mitted to the Massachusetts bar in Sept., 1876, and at once began 
practice. In 1878, he was reported as having attained very con- 
siderable success in his business. At that time he was definitely 
located in an office at 102 Market Street, Lynn. Very soon after 
this report (Jan. 1, 1878), certainly during that year, he developed 
mental disease which speedily assumed such a violent form as to 
necessitate his confinement under medical supervision. The hopes 
of his recovery, which for a time were entertained, soon proved 
unfounded. It is known that for the following fifteen years his 
condition changed only for the worse, if at all. The names of 
the institutions in which he was for a time detained suggest greatly 
restricted means for support. It has been impossible to learn any 
facts concerning his condition for the past six years. He was 
never married. 



DOANE COGSWELL, A.K.E. 

Doane Cogswell, who bears a name widely known in Massa- 
chusetts, was born at Bradford, April 29, 1851. His father, 
George Cogswell, a graduate of the New Hampshire (Dart.) Med- 
ical College in 1830, was for many years a practising physician of 
Bradford whose reputation extended his work widely through- 
out that section of the State. Cogswell's preparatory studies were 
pursued at Phillips Academy, Andover, under the reign of the 
famous "Uncle Sam" Taylor, father of our classmate Taylor. On 
graduation he entered Harvard Medical School, but after two 
years relinquished his studies on account of ill health. An in- 
herited love of a farmer's life, which had been intensified by the 
circumstances of his earlier years, soon led him to purchase 
his father's farm with the purpose of devoting his whole attention 
to farming, This he has done with such thorough knowledge of 
the requirements as always insures success. In harmony with 
the spirit of the times he has become a specialist, as a breeder of 
Holstein-Friesian cattle of the purest blood. The pride with 
which he speaks of his work displays an appreciation of the value 
of high class, thorough work in any undertaking. He was mar- 
ried, Dec. 20, 1883, to Miss Sarah Catherine Drury of Gardner, 
Mass. "Mine," he writes, "was a happy home until the death of 
Mrs. Cogswell, from typhoid fever, May 22, 1892." Two sons, 
nine and fifteen years of age, are now in training to enter Dart- 
mouth, where he hopes and intends that they shall do honor to 
their father and the college. In 189 1 he was the Republican can- 
didate for representative to the General Court of Massachusetts, 
but was defeated. A second nomination the following year was de- 
clined on account of the death of his wife. He is now one of the 
inspectors under the State Cattle Commission. For some years 
he has been a trustee of the Bradford Academy for Young Ladies 
and was also treasurer until he resigned that office in 1892. He 
has held numerous town offices and was for some years Justice of 
the Peace. "Among other honors," he says, "I may mention that 
I am bald, gray, and wear glasses," to which we take the liberty of 
adding, as the tribute of a college chum, the attainment of universal 
respect as an honored citizen and faithful friend. 



EDWIN CORYDON CRAWFORD, K.K.K. 

Although the influence of the Civil War upon the ages of Dart- 
mouth students ceased to be apparent by 1870, '74 was not 
without those older men who serve as ballast in a class of young- 
sters. Edwin C. Crawford stood third in point of age in the class 
of 1874. At the time of his birth, April 10, 1845, his father, Lewis 
Crawford, was a farmer at Fostoria, Ohio, but emigrated in 1849 
to Indiana, settling at Cedarville, near Ft. Wayne. Crawford re- 
mained at work on the farm until of age when he determined to 
prepare himself for college. The first year was devoted to ob- 
taining the necessary funds, partly by teaching. The following 
year, after one term at the Ft. Wayne High School, finding it 
necessary to resume teaching, he fortunately secured the princi- 
palship of one of the city schools. This position he held for a 
year, and two years later graduated from the high school. Dur- 
ing the Summer of 1870 he was city editor of the Ft. Wayne Ga- 
zette until he entered Dartmouth in the Fall. The work of teaching, 
in which he was still engaged while in the high school, he continued 
each year of the college course, and some weeks before graduation 
was appointed principal of the high school in Waukegan, 111. 
During the four years he held this position his spare time was de- 
voted to reading law and, after a further year devoted entirely to 
that study with Judge Francis E. Clark of the class of '51 (Dart.), 
he was admitted to the bar at Chicago in Oct., 1879. He im- 
mediately opened an office at 86 LaSalle St., Chicago, where he 
continued in practice by himself until 1892, when he formed a 
partnership with W.G.Burleigh (Dart. '72). Their offices are now 
at 100 E. Washington street. From the first Crawford has been 
prominent in local and State politics both as a speaker and writer, 
but has never himself been a candidate for office. Soon after his ad- 
mission to the bar he wrote a text-book on "Civil Government," 
which has been used extensively in the public schools of Chicago 
and the W T est. He was delegate to the county and congressional 
district Republican conventions in 1888, and was Memorial Day 
orator in Waukegan in 1889. From 1879 to J ^5 his home was in 
Chicago, then at Waukegan until 1897, when he built a house for 
himself at Evanston, the first suburb north of Chicago. In June, 
1882, he was married to Miss Josephine M. Wheeler of Wauke- 
gan, but has no children. 



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WILLIAM HENRY DAVIS, K.K.K. 

William H. Davis, a son of Aaron and Mary (Wells) Davis, 
was born April 23, 1852, at Chelsea, Vt., the largest town in the 
county, where his father was a leading merchant for many years 
prior to his death in 1881. After completing the work of the 
local schools, in 1867 he entered Kimball Union Academy at 
Meriden, then under the charge of Dr. Richards. While in 
college he indulged in teaching for a single winter only. In the 
Fall of 1874 he entered Union Theological Seminary, New York 
City, where he became a class- and room-mate of Francis Brown of 
the class of '70. For the Summer of 1875 he was engaged in 
missionary work at Baillie, N. B., and other summers of his theo- 
logical course in pulpits near New York. Graduating from the 
seminary in May, 1877, the following July he was ordained pastor 
of the Washington Street Church at Beverly, Mass. At the end 
of a year, June, 1878, he went abroad and spent over eleven months 
in study and travel in Europe, along the Nile and in Palestine. In 
1884 ne accepted a call to the First Congregational Church of 
Detroit, Mich., which under his guidance became the strongest 
church of that denomination in the State. The Summer of 1889 
he also spent in travel abroad. After twelve year's most success- 
ful work in Detroit he was invited in 1896 to become the pastor of 
the Eliot Congregational Church, at Newton, Mass., where he is 
now settled. For ten years past he has had a summer home "The 
Binnacle" on Cape Cod. His literary work, aside from routine ser- 
monizing, has been abundant and widely distributed. For the past 
sixteen years usually four sermons from his pen have appeared each 
year in the volume of the Monday club. Since he came to Newton 
he has been one of the college preachers at Hanover, and has 
through all his pastoral life been prominent and active in business 
organizations of the church. At present he is a valued member of 
the Prudential Committee of the American Board, and trustee on 
several others, educational and religious. He has refused several 
invitations to become a college president or professor, and the fact 
that he has held but three pastorates is due solely to loyalty to 
equally loyal churches. He bears the degree of D.D., conferred by 
Dartmouth. Davis was married in Oct., 1879, to Miss Emma 
Priscilla Meacham of Burlington, Vt., a graduate of Abbott 
Academy. Their first child Robert Meacham, born July 28, 
1880, enters Dartmouth in 1899. A daughter, Mary Wells, 
was born Oct. 8, 1884. A second son, Donald died from appen- 
dicitis, in 1895, at tne a g e of 8 years. A third son, Edward was 
born in 1895. 



MYRON PARSONS DICKEY, A.K.E. 

Myron P. Dickey was born in Derry, N. H., February 19, 
1852, the son of David Woodburn Dickey, a farmer, and Sarah 
(Campbell) Dickey. His life until the time of entering college, 
was spent at his home in Derry, where he pursued his early studies 
in the district school, and received his college preparation at the 
Pinkerton Academy. Dickey was also one of the class peda- 
gogues, and taught during the college course at Londonderry, 
Lebanon, Conn., and Palmer, Mass. Immediately following grad- 
uation he returned to Palmer to assume charge of the grammar 
school at Three Rivers, in that town, for two terms. Mean- 
time he was elected the first principal of the Emerson Free High 
School at Hampstead, N. H. This position he assumed in the 
Spring of '75, and retained it until the Summer of '79, when he 
accepted a similar position in the High School at New Market, N. 
H. Before the end of the year he decided to study for the minis- 
try, and in the Fall of 1880 entered the Yale Theological Semi- 
nary, from which he graduated in 1883. Before graduation he had 
accepted a call to the First Congregational Church in Ludlow, 
Mass., where he was ordained June 14, 1883. This charge he re- 
tained for ten years, until March, '93, when he received a call to 
the Congregational Church of Milton, N. H., where he is still 
located. 

On August 3, 1876, he was married to Miss Louise R. Shum- 
way, one of the teachers with whom he was associated in Three 
Rivers. They have three children: Maurice W., born October 
1878, is now a member of the class of 1899 at Dartmouth; 
"whom," Dickey writes, "it will, 'dec volente,' be my pleasure to 
introduce to my classmates at our twenty-fifth anniversary as the 
first son of '74 to graduate from our Alma Mater." A daughter, 
Orinda Sophia, was born June 22, 1883, and a second son, Myron 
P., Jr. Dickey leaves of indeterminate age, presumably on account 
of a persistent dislike of figures. 



PARKER DICKSON, J.J.*. 

Parker Dickson was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, September 12, 
1853. His father, William M. Dickson, was a lawyer, and gradu- 
ate of Miami University in 1846, and of the Harvard Law School. 
Dickson's college preparation was obtained in the schools of Cin- 
cinnati, and he joined the class of '74 at Dartmouth in the Fall of 
1873, after three years at Miami University. Taking the degree of 
A.B. with the class of '74, he received that of A.M. from Miami in 
1893. After graduation he studied law at his former home, and 
was admitted to the bar in 1876. In 1877 he was made Assistant 
United States District Attorney for Ohio, which position he re- 
tained until 1881. He was then appointed Legal Adjuster for 
the Queen and Crescent system of railroads, and has continued 
to hold that position. He was also for a time Associate Counsel 
of the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railroad. His 
office and residence were at Cincinnati until April, 1894, since 
when they have been at Lexington, Ky. He has never married. 



EDWIN GAMAGE EASTMAN, K.K.K. 

Edwin G. Eastman, son of the Rev. William H. Eastman, was 
born in Grantham, N. H., on November 22, 1848. From the dis- 
trict schools of Grantham he went to Kimball Union Academy, at 
Meriden, where he graduated in '69 at the age of twenty-one. The 
following year he entered Dartmouth with the class of '74, but did 
not complete the course. At the end of Junior year he left college 
and began the study of law in the office of Hon. A. P. Carpenter 
at Bath, N. H. In 1876 he was admitted to the New Hampshire 
bar, and that same year represented the town of Grantham, which 
he called his home, in the New Hampshire Legislature. In 1877 
he entered the office of Hon. Gilman Marston of Exeter as clerk, 
and some years later became a partner in the firm. He was for 
four years solicitor for Rockingham County, and has been a mem- 
ber of both the State Legislature and Senate, in which he was 
chairman of the Judiciary Committee. He is now and has been 
for some years Attorney-General of New Hampshire. 

Soon after going to Exeter, he was married to Miss Elener E. 
Dodge of Newport, who died a few years later, leaving a daugh- 
ter, Helen M., born in 1879. I* 1 l &&5 ne married Miss Margie 
Follansby of Exeter. A second daughter, Ella F., was born in 
1887 or '88. 

He received the degree of A.B. in 1889, and is now recorded 
as a member of the class of '74. A request for further informa- 
tion elicited the reply that he is now a lawyer, residing at Exeter, 
N. H. 



ALBERT EATON, A.A.4. 

Albert Eaton was born October 15, 1849. His father, Calvin 
R. Eaton, was at one time a railroad contractor, and in the early 
seventies was a resident of Grinnell, Iowa. Nothing is known of 
Eaton's early life, but he began his college course as a student 
in Iowa College at Grinnell in the class with H. G. Brainerd, with 
whom he came to Dartmouth to join the class of '74 at the begin- 
ning of Sophomore year. His life since graduation is known 
only from hearsay. For a short time he was in the insurance busi- 
ness with Home at Portland, Me., but in April, '75, was said to 
be associated with his father in railroad building in Kentucky. A 
year later he was a law student at Grinnell, Iowa, where he is 
said to have practised for a short time. The next report was to 
the effect that about 1878 he gave up the law, and was again en- 
gaged in railroad contracting. A letter from Brainerd, dated 
May, '89, fixes Eaton in the custom-house in San Francisco on 
that date, and states that he was married some eighteen months 
previously, and was living in the city. In a second letter, of 
March, '95, Brainerd speaks of having visited Eaton at his ranch, 
some ten miles back of Oakland. Whether his ranch life was 
coincident with or subsequent to his service in the custom-house is 
uncertain, but the latter seems probable. The latest information 
received places Eaton in Honolulu, with a probable interest in 
sugar manufacturing. Nothing is known of his having any 
children. 






HOWARD STYLES ELDRED, A.K.E. 

Howard S. Eldred was born in Milwaukee, Wis., on Novem- 
ber 22, 1 85 1. His father, Anson Eldred, was a manufacturing 
lumber merchant, with extensive mills located at several points in 
the interior of the State. Eldred prepared for college in the 
graded schools of Milwaukee, and at the Milwaukee Academy, 
where he was a classmate of Badgley. Coming to Dartmouth as 
friends they continued as room-mates through the entire course. 
Immediately upon his return to Milwaukee after graduation, El- 
dred entered the lumber business under his father's control. For 
a time he was located at Little Suamico, Wis., as secretary of the 
company. In 1878 he became a full member of the firm of Anson 
Eldred & Son. The mills of this company were located at Styles 
and Ft. Howard, Wis., with shipping connections at Green Bay. 
Eldred's residence was divided between these places until 1888, 
when his permanent home was fixed at No. 2 Waverly Place, Mil- 
waukee. Some time previous to '89 the firm of Anson Eldred 
& Son was expanded into "The Anson Eldred Company." In 
1888 Eldred became interested in banking, and for some years 
past has been an official of the Citizens' National Bank at Green 
Bay, Wis. He was married October 5, 1881, to Miss Clara 
Strong of Green Bay. They have two children, a daughter thir- 
teen, and a son eight years of age. 



JOSEPH ELLIOT FENN. 

Joseph E. Fenn was born in Boston (?) August 3, 1848. His 
father, Austin Fenn, was at that time a merchant, but some years 
later became a farmer of Landgrove, Vt. Fenn completed his 
preparation at Meriden, and entered with the class in 1870, but 
left during Freshman year to enter Cornell. He again became 
a member of the class in the Fall of '71. The first year after 
graduation he studied medicine, for a part of the term at Han- 
over, but soon transferred his attentions to the law, entering an 
office at Manchester, Vt. In connection with his office studies 
he took the law course at Boston University, where he graduated 
in 1877. Returning to Manchester, he became a partner in the 
law firm of Miner & Fenn, in which the senior partner, by reason 
of his age, took no active part in the business. In 1879 Fenn was 
elected State's Attorney for the County of Bennington, and was re- 
elected on the expiration of the term of two years. He was mar- 
ried December 31, 1883, to Miss Ella M. Woodward of Land- 
grove, Vt. A son, Minor Elliott, was born in 1884. About this 
time he made a trip through the West, down the Mississippi to 
Florida. For a time he was Register of Probate, and spoken of 
as candidate for Judge. 

As a relief from the distractions of the law he has become 
interested in farming, to a degree, it is reported, such as makes it 
a rival of the law. 

[The above is taken in toto from Scott's notes, made not later 
than '84. All efforts of the present secretary to secure further in- 
formation have proven fruitless, but it is quite certain that Fenn 
is still a resident of Manchester, Vt.] 



JAMES RANDALL FREEMAN, V.T. 

James R. Freeman, one of the youngest members of the class 
of '74, was born October i, 1854, in Biddeford, Me., where his 
father, William P. Freeman (it is supposed), was a clergyman. 

Freeman fitted at the Biddeford High School, with Pierce. 

A part of the first four years following graduation is unac- 
counted for, but in 1878 he was graduated from the National 
Medical College at Washington, D. C. It is possible that the en- 
tire four years were spent in Washington, his course being pro- 
longed by reason of other occupation. One report states that 
after graduation he was connected with the Surgeon-General's 
Office in Washington, until he removed to Minneapolis, about 
1883 or '84. From that time until his death, in January, 1894, he 
was a practising physician in Minneapolis, where the same genial 
nature that endeared him to his classmates gained him a wide 
circle of friends, with the inevitably attendant professional suc- 
cess. He was a prominent member of the Masons, Knights of 
Pythias, Odd Fellows, Foresters, and Order of United Work- 
men, in each of which he attained high official positions. The re- 
cords of the public services at his funeral testify to the sincerity 
and wide extent of the friendships he had formed. It is not 
known that he was ever married. 



CHARLES OTIS GATES, A.A.Q. 

Charles O. Gates was born October 14, 1852, at Fairfield, Iowa, 
where his father, the Rev. Charles H. Gates, a graduate of Am- 
herst of the class of 1847, na d recently settled. In 1858 his 
father removed to Washington, and later, in 1863, to Askaloos, in 
the same State, and in 1871 to Buxton, Me. Gates began his 
college preparation at Grinnell, Iowa, to continue it at Lewington, 
Me., and Monson, Mass. While in college he taught at Buxton, 
Me.; Somerville, Mass., and on "the Cape." 

For five years following graduation he taught Latin and 
Greek at Norwalk, Conn., in the Selleck School. His success here 
led to his appointment in 1879 as Professor of Latin and Greek in 
the Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn, N. Y. While teaching here he 
took the course in law at the New York University Law School, 
graduating in 1885, but never practised. In 1887 he published 
a school text-book, entitled "Latin Word-Building." On June 
7, 1887, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Hoagland, daughter of 
Dr. C. N. Hoagland, a member of the firm controlling the Royal 
Baking Powder business, whose liberal donations to the Long 
Island Hospital Medical College have made him one of the bene- 
factors of medical science. Following his marriage, Gates re- 
signed his position in Adelphi Academy, and entered business with 
his father-in-law. Two years later, on the reorganization of that 
company, he became treasurer and advertising manager of the 
Cleveland Baking Powder Company, a position which he retained 
until May, '99, when the sale of that company's interests left his 
future occupation undetermined. He sailed for Europe with his 
family May 23, '99. 

He has three children: Hoagland Gates, born in 1891 ; Ste- 
phen Gates, born in 1892, and Eleanor Gates, born in 1894. 




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JOSEPH STARR HAINES, K.K.K. 

Joseph S. Haines, the class-leader and valedictorian, was 
born February 3, 1852, at Sacramento City, California, where his 
father, Joseph A. Haines, had diverse business interests as a 
brewer, lumber merchant, and stock-raiser. In 1854 the family 
moved to San Francisco. How long Haines lived there is un- 
known, but his preparation for college was gained largely in the 
high school of Manchester, N. H., in company with Pettee. He 
did not teach while in college, but for the first year after 
graduation had charge of a school in Manchester. The following 
year he spent in the study of law in the office of Cross & Burnham, 
at Manchester. He was then for two years a clerk in the National 
Bank of Redemption, Devonshire street, Boston. Since 1878 he 
has been engaged in stock-raising on a farm at Storm Lake, Iowa, 
where he may now be found. He has never married. 



HENRY HOWARD HART, K.K.K. 

Henry H. Hart was born January 15, 185 1, and prepared for 
college at New London, N. H., being at that time a resident of 
Methuen, Mass. 

On graduation he began the study of law at Lowell, Mass., 
but soon accepted a position as a teacher at Danvers, Mass. From 
there he went to Haverhill, where he taught Latin and Greek in 
the High School for a year. In 1876 he was made prin- 
cipal of the High School at Dover, N. H., after a com- 
petitive examination with seventy-five applicants. This posi- 
tion he retained for some years and then resumed the study of law. 
He was admitted to the N. H. bar in 1881, and opened an office in 
Dover, where he practised for three years. As the result of cer- 
tain financial transactions he was compelled to leave Dover, in 
January, 1884, and has since been heard from only at long inter- 
vals. From Dover he went abroad and spent a year or more 
travelling in Europe and Australia. He was next heard from 
in Chicago about 1890, where, for a year or more, he was engaged 
in the subscription-book business, with but little success. Again 
in '94-'95 he was in Chicago, where Crawford reports him as 
apparently prosperous. In the interval he had been travelling in 
the West as far as California as agent for a publishing firm, and 
in 1 89 1 was married at Minneapolis. In the Fall of 1898 he was 
discovered by Brown at Minneapolis, in straightened circum- 
stances, and suffering from mental paralysis. Through Brown's 
generous sympathy and assistance he was placed in an asylum 
where he would be cared for under proper medical attention. 
His only child, a son, was born and died in Chicago. 



HERMAN LESTER HORNE, W.T. 

Herman L. Home, a son of John L., and Hannah (Wallace) 
Home, was born at Wolfboro, N. H., February 6, 1852. The 
same year his father moved to Norway, Me., and established a 
tannery business, which became one of the largest of its kind in 
the East. Home's early education was gained at Norway, and 
his special college preparation at the South Berwick Academy, 
with a winter of teaching in Norway, in 1869. His college ex- 
periences in teaching were both at Wellfleet on "the Cape." One of 
the most pleasing, though unrecorded college honors, fell to him 
in his election as captain of the '74 cadets. Immediately on gradu- 
ating Home became the general agent of the Mass. Mutual Ins. 
Co., for the State of Maine, with offices in Portland. In the latter 
part of 1876 he was offered, by his father, a partnership in the 
tannery business and became a member of the firm of John L. 
Home & Son. This business was continued for fifteen years. 
Its size is indicated by this brief newspaper note of February 19, 
1887: "The Norway tannery recently shipped 100,000 pounds of 
pelts to Liverpool and London." At the end of this time the 
advantages enjoyed by Western tanners produced such sharp 
competition that this firm transferred its interests from leather to 
lumber, in which business Home is still engaged at the same place. 
Some years since he organized the Norway Water Co., with a 
capital of $110,000, and also started the Norway Electric Light 
Co., of which he was for several years president. He was one of 
the first promoters of the Norway Branch Railroad and of the 
Norway Shoe Co., which has nearly the largest floor-space of any 
such company in the country, and is now president of both of these 
companies. For four years he was president of the Oxford County 
Agricultural Society, and for several years a trustee of the Nor- 
way Savings Bank. On October 18, 1876, Home was married 
to Miss Fannie H. Holmes. They have no children. 



ARTHUR DARWIN JENKINS, A.K.E. 

Arthur D. Jenkins, a son of Lewis, and Sarah (Hall) Jenkins, 
was born on September 6, 1844, at Burke, Vt., where his father 
was then pastor of the Methodist Church. 

Jenkins takes second place in order of age in the class, and 
his college preparation was not begun until he was nearly of age. 
He took the full course at St. Johnsbury Academy, from which he 
entered college. Although he did not teach before, he began such 
work while in college, at Lunenburg and New Bedford. After 
graduation he began the study of law in Boston, but after a little 
less than two years he again took up the life of a teacher, which, 
although at one time he thought to enter the ministry, continued 
to be his work until his death. He began at East Burke, and later 
was at Island Pond, Colebrook, Whitefield, Lunenburg, and West 
Burke. From about 1880 to 1882 he taught in Mineral, Bureau 
Co., 111. Returning to Burke in 1882, he again began teaching. 
The following January he suffered an attack of appendicitis, 
which resulted in his death, January 31, 1883. In 1876-7, Jenkins 
was representative for the town of Burke in the Vermont legis- 
lature. On August 16, 1881, he was married at Geneseo, 111., to 
Miss Edith A. Pettis. They had one child, Martha, born June 
2, 1882. 



GEORGE WILLIAM LEE, A.A.Q. 

George W. Lee, a typical illustration of the well-developed 
New England youth, was born in New Ipswich, N. H., June 20, 
1853. His life previous to entering college, though given pri- 
marily to study, included sufficient physical activity to thoroughly 
develop his inherited traits. His father, the Rev. Samuel Lee, 
and his mother, Lydia Wentworth, each represented long lines of 
the most rugged New England stock. He fitted for col- 
lege at the New Ipswich Appleton Academy, in part under 
(Prof.) John Lord. In college he was business manager of the 
Dartmouth and a contributor to that ephemeral, but most brilliant 
literary production Dartmouth has ever known, The Anvil. In 
the summer of 1872, he suffered a partial sunstroke, the effects of 
which were aggravated by his work on the college crew. Im- 
mediately after graduation he began the study of law at Haver- 
hill, N. H., but in December, 1874, he removed to Indianola, 
Iowa, where he was admitted to the bar in August, 1875, and 
began practice. In 1877, he moved to Des Moines, Iowa, entering 
the firm of Maxwell, Lee & Witter, where he continued in prac- 
tice until failing health in 1881 compelled him to give up his pro- 
fession. In 1882, at San Diego, California, where he had gone in 
search of health, he ran across '74 literature, which led to the dis- 
covery that he was living in the house of Nesmith's father. Fail- 
ing to find in California the relief he sought, he returned to Iowa, 
and died at Boone, March 10, 1884, from consumption. He 
was married September 15, 1880, to Miss Clara H. Clarke of 
Boone, Iowa, but left no children. His professional career, 
though brief, was of such a character as to make him a marked 
man in the community, and gave promise of the highest re- 
wards. He had made himself invaluable to his firm and the 
trusted counsel of a large clientele. While holding no political 
offices himself, he was frequently the orator at political meetings. 
He was the promoter of the first lecture course ever given at 
Indianola, and in his home was a constant student, keeping up 
his studies of Latin and biblical Greek. 

Filled with a high and noble ambition, backed by intensity of 
purpose and a love of work, he possessed all the qualities that make 
certain an honorable success in all the walks of life. 

The public expressions of sorrow and recognition of his worth 
from those who knew him, either professionally or personally, all 
testify to a strength of character and force of mind that justly 
place Lee among the honor men of the class of '74. 



HOMER PIERCE LEWIS, W.Y. 

Homer P. Lewis, a son of George G. and Adeline (Labaree) 
Lewis, was born July 28, 1849, at ms father's farm in Claremont, 
N. H. His preparatory studies at Meriden, N. H., were supple- 
mented by experience as a teacher during the winters from 1867 
to 1870, which included the somewhat famous school at Boxford, 
Mass. He also had charge of this school for two winters of his 
college course, and in Junior year taught at East Dennis. For 
the first year after graduation he was connected with the Pinker- 
ton Academy at Derry. During the following three years he was 
at the head of the Grammar School at Davenport, Iowa, being 
promoted in 1878 to the principalshipof the High School. Early in 
1883 Lewis moved to Omaha, Nebraska, to assume charge of the 
High School, which at that time numbered 80 pupils. When he re- 
signed this position in 1897 the school had twelve hundred pupils 
in regular attendance, with eighteen assistant teachers. Public 
recognition of Lewis' services in bringing about this result was 
not restricted to congratulations upon the numerical growth, but 
was especially manifested by expressions commending the high 
grade of scholarship attained. His resignation of the position 
after so long and successful a service was to enable him to accept 
the principalship of the English High School at Worcester, Mass., 
probably the largest school of its kind in New England, with over 
eleven hundred pupils. It is only justice to state that the offer of 
this position came solely as the result of his reputation as a 
teacher, gained by his work in Omaha. He is already chairman 
of the High School section of the Massachusetts Association of 
Teachers. Lewis was married December 26, 1878, to Miss 
Katharine Roberts, a graduate of Vassar, in 1875. 



SAMUEL WALKER McCALL, K.K.K. 

Samuel W. McCall was born at East Providence, Penn., 
February 28, 1851. His father, Henry McCall, was a manu- 
facturer of stoves and agricultural implements. His formal pre- 
paratory studies were at New Hampton. He taught for three 
winters of the course and occupied, briefly, a vacancy in the 
corps of instructors at Kimball Union Academy. He was also 
one of those who contributed to the fame of The Anvil. 

On graduation he began the study of law at Nashua, N. H., 
and later was in the office of Staples & Goulding, at Worcester, 
Mass., where, on November 17, 1875, ne was admitted to the 
bar, having previously been a student at the Harvard Law School. 
Subsequently he formed a partnership with Powers, with offices 
in the Equitable Building, on Devonshire street, Boston, Mass. 
This partnership was dissolved a year later. McCall moved his 
office first to Pemberton square, and then, in 1878, to 23 Court 
street. During these years, and largely to the present time, his 
interests have been more literary than legal. He early became a 
contributor to the magazines, and his literary work has, at times, 
received high commendation, a critical essay on Rufus Choate, 
in particular, attracting attention. He did not, however, re- 
linquish his legal business, but has been engaged more as counsel 
for corporations than in general practice. In 1881, by rea- 
son of failing health, he travelled in Europe, in company with 
Scott. During that trip he was aroused by English injustice to 
America, and on his return unburdened himself in a magazine 
article, entitled, "English Views of America," which appeared in 
the International Review. During the Republican campaign of 
1884 he was the instigator of a new paper, called The Stalwart, to 
which he contributed largely. In 1885 he was one of the com- 
pany which secured control of the Boston Advertiser, and for 
some months was editor-in-chief. With the close of the cam- 
paign he returned to his law business at 13 School street. Previ- 
ously, in 1882, he had become a resident of Winchester, Mass. 
In 1887 and '88, and in 1891, he represented his district in the 
Massachusetts Legislature, and was during one term chairman 
of the Judiciary Committee. In i^2-g^-g6 and '98 he was 
elected as representative for his district in Congress, and in 
1888 was a delegate to the National Republican Convention at Chi- 
cago. He was also chairman of the Committee on Resolutions 
in the Massachusetts Republican Convention of 1892 and president 
of the same convention in 1896. He was married May 23, 1881, 
to Miss Ella Esther Thompson and has five children: Sumner 
T., born May 30, 1882; Ruth, born Jan. 19, 1885; Henry, born 
Aug. 24, 1886; Catherine, born Aug. 10, 1889, and Margaret, 
born July 20, 1892. 



THOMAS MACOMBER, V.Y. 

Thomas Macomber was the son of Benjamin and Hannah 
(Meekes) Macomber and was born on May 31, 1847, at Grand 
Isle, Vt., where his father was a farmer and fruit-grower. 

He supplemented his preparatory studies at the New Hampton 
Institute in Fairfax, Vt., and in the Conference Seminary of Mont- 
pelier by teaching. He also was a teacher every winter of the 
college course, having schools in Franklin, Vt., Chatham, Mass., 
Arlington, 111., and Gorham and Lancaster, N. H. Immediately 
on leaving college he resumed the position which he had held 
the previous year as principal of the Lancaster Academy 
where he remained until his death on July 2J, 1881. In Jan., 1875, 
he was married to Miss Alice M. Wood. They had two children, 
Benjamin, born June 4, 1876, and Claribel, born Aug., 1878. Ma- 
comber was descended from a family of Scotch-English blood that 
settled in Grand Isle about the middle of the 18th century. In 
his work he manifested the same uniform firmness of character 
that marked his college life and which everywhere commands re- 
spect and regard. 



CLINTON HENRY MOORE, K.K.K. 

Clinton H. Moore, another farmer's son, was born to Henry 
and Appia (Bowen) Moore in Piermont, N. H., on Aug. 17, 1847. 
Before reaching the age of four he suffered the loss of his mother, 
and while still a child an accident deprived him of the sight of one 
eye. This loss, by reason of his passion for reading, became, in 
later years, a serious impediment to his studies. At the age of 
sixteen he was compelled, by his father's health to relinquish his 
preparatory studies, then recently begun, and to assume the sup- 
port of the family. Four years later, following the death of his 
father he resumed these studies, and in 1868 entered the Kimball 
Academy, from which he entered college with the class, having 
done the work of three years in a little over two. While in col- 
lege he taught during Freshman winter in Piermont. In August, 
following graduation, he became principal of the graded school at 
Lyndon, Vt. In June, 1875, failing health led him West, and for 
eighteen months he was on a ranch in Ruby Valley, Elko County, 
Nev. He then resumed teaching in Nevada until Aug., 1877, 
when he accepted an invitation to visit Rolfe at Helena, Mont., to 
find on his arrival that Rolfe had secured him the principalship of 
the public school at Deer Lodge. While teaching there he was 
interested in the organization of the College of Montana and in 
1878 was sent East to purchase apparatus, secure plans for build- 
ings, and engage teachers. This institution was opened in Sept., 
1878 with Moore as President. Just a year later he relinquished 
his position and went to Boise, Idaho, where in Mar., 1880, he was 
made supervisor of the 10th Census for Idaho. In 1881 he had 
a sharp attack of mining fever which was quickly allayed by a 
trip to the Wood River country, and Oct., 1 881 found him engaged 
in the book and stationery business in Butte. In 1882 he was 
elected Superintendent of Schools for Silver Bow County, Mont. 
In 1883 he moved his business to Anaconda, about thirty miles 
from Butte, where he was made postmaster several weeks be- 
fore the town-site was definitely located and the construction of 
buildings begun. Moore remained in Anaconda nearly three years 
when in 1886 he again became interested in mining and for four 
years was superintendent of the Pyrenees gold mine. During this 
time although a Republican, he was elected to the legislature by a 
large majority in a strongly Democratic county. In 1890, he 
went to Mexico as manager of a large silver mine. Since his re- 
turn soon after to Butte, Mont., where he now resides, he has been 
engaged in the various ramifications of mining interests. He 
was married, Aug. 10, 1880, at Helena, Mont., to Miss Emma Jones 
Hutchins, whom he had known as a schoolmate and neighbor in 
New Hampshire. They have no children. 



WILLIAM WEEKS MORRILL, K.K.K. 

William W. Morrill, like the large majority of Dartmouth men, 
was the son of a farmer, Josiah Robinson Morrill, of Gilmanton, 
N. H., where he was bom, August 31, 185 1. Not long afterward 
his father removed to Belmont, from which place Morrill entered 
college, on completion of his preparatory course at the New 
Hampton Literary Institute, New Hampton, N. H. He had then 
taught one winter at Northfield, N. H., and repeated the experi- 
ence each winter of the college course, at Sandwich and Lancas- 
ter, N. H., and Boxford and Hamilton, Mass. In the Fall and 
Winter after graduation he taught at Lancaster, N. H., and in the 
Spring of '75 became principal of the Norwich (Vt.) Academy. 

For the school year of '76 and 'jy he was headmaster of the 
Bede Hall School, at Cooperstown, N. Y., from which place he 
was called in 'yj to the position of Instructor in English Language 
and Literature in the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, at Troy, N. 
Y. A year later he also became instructor in Latin at St. Paul's 
School, Troy. These two positions he held until 1882. Mean- 
while devoting himself to the study of law as he found opportun- 
ity, he was admitted to the bar in 1880. On relinquishing teaching 
in 1882 he became managing clerk in the office of a legal firm in 
Troy. Soon after he opened an office for himself at No. 6 First 
street, where he still continues in practice. While in Norwich he 
made the acquaintance of Miss Nina M. L. Lewis of that place, to 
whom he was married on September 14, 1876. They have no 
children. Aside from his practice, Morrill has given considerable 
time to the compilation of legal works. The first, published about 
1885, was on "Competency and Privileges of Witnesses under 
the New York Code." The second, which appeared in 1886, was 
on "City Negligences." A more extensive and ambitious work, 
entitled "American Electrical Cases," is a digest of all published 
cases and decisions involving questions in electrical science. It 
is published in parts by the firm of Nathan Bender, Albany, N. Y., 
and now comprises six volumes, of which the first appeared in 
1894. This work has been received with most flattering com- 
mendations. It is described by The New York Law Review as 
"the most valuable series of cases for active lawyers that has 
appeared in recent years." Of Morrill's first work the same jour- 
nal says : "It is one of the most thorough, systematic, and exact 
pieces of analysis and explanation that has ever come under our 
notice." 

For himself Morrill says, his home in Troy may be recognized 
as "the little house without mansard or mortgage, and a latch- 
string marked 'Welcome to '74,,' " 



EDGAR LEANDER MORSE, A.K.E. 

Edgar L. Morse was born May 6, 1850, at St. Johnsbury, Vt., 
where his parents, Amos Clifford, a machinist, and Susan (Clark) 
Morse, resided until 1861, when they removed to South Danville, 
Vt. During his preparatory studies at the St. Johnsbury Acad- 
emy Morse taught one winter in Danville, and continued his 
teaching each year in college at various places in Massachusetts. 
He first entered college with the class of '73. For three years 
he was a member of that class, and joined '74 Senior Fall after 
a year's absence. From '74 to '75 he was teacher of Natural Sci- 
ences at St. Johnsbury, and the following year taught in the Web- 
ster Institute, of Norfolk, Va. In '76 he entered Andover Theo- 
logical Seminary, from which he graduated three years later, and 
at once became assistant pastor of the Olivet Mission Church 
in New York City, which, at that time, under the pastorate of 
Rev. A. F. Schauffler, was the largest and most prominent mis- 
sion in New York. Morse remained in New York until 1881, 
when, on September 21, he was installed pastor of the Congre- 
gational Church at Boscobel, Wis. In 1884 he was at Glyndon, on 
the Northern Pacific Railroad, in the Red River Valley, and 
later, in 1885, he went to Minneapolis, as pastor of an east-side 
church. In 1887, after a brief pastorate at Elroy, Wis., he ac- 
cepted a call to Durand, Wis. Most of these, as well as some 
other churches to which he ministered, were in the field of the 
American Home Missionary Society, and his life since leaving 
New York has been devoted to that work. He is now located at 
Park Falls, Wis., in a charge which had found few so bold and 
self-sacrificing as to be willing to accept the inevitable trials and 
hardships of the work, but for which he offered himself when 
a call was made for volunteers. He was married November 
22, 1887, to Miss Amy C. Kellogg, of Ft. Atkinson, Wis., who, at 
that time, had been for eight years State President of the W. C. 
T. U. in Wisconsin and was widely known as a reformer and 
public speaker in the cause of temperance. The value of her 
services to that movement has been publicly recognized through- 
out the West in most flattering terms. They have two children, 
Miriam and Helen, eight and seven years of age. 



OTTO ANDREA NESMITH, A.K.E. 

Otto A. Nesmith was born at the residence of his parents, 
Thomas L. Nesmith, a wholesale merchant of New York City, 
and Maria Antoinette Gale, on Staten Island, N. Y., March 7, 
1852. In 1853 -U health caused his father to remove to San 
Antonio, Tex. In 1862 his father, being a Union man, although 
still an invalid, was compelled, after suffering a brief imprisonment, 
to take refuge in Mexico, where he remained until 1864, when, 
upon the opening of the Mississippi, Nesmith was sent North 
and placed in the Pinkerton Academy, at Derry, N. H., from 
which school he entered college. On graduation he went to San 
Francisco, and entered the office of the General Auditor of the 
Central Pacific Railroad, where he remained until 1881, devoting 
his spare time to the study of law. He then returned East, and 
continued his law studies at Franklin, N. H., in the office of Hon. 
Daniel Barnard, under the direction of Judge Nesmith (a Dart- 
mouth trustee) with whom he lived. He completed his studies 
by a condensed course at the Boston University Law School, 
where he graduated "cum laude" and received the degree of 
LL.B. in 1884. Just previous to graduation he took the exam- 
ination of Suffolk County, Boston, and was admitted to the Massa- 
chusetts bar. He then went West, and for a short time practised 
in Chicago and Minneapolis. In 1888 he again went to Cali- 
fornia, but soon returned, to accept an appointment as chief clerk 
of the Signal Bureau in the War Department, at Washington, 
D. C. Later he was commissioned by the President as Captain in 
the United States Volunteer Signal Corps, and assigned to duty 
as assistant to the chief signal officer of the army, which position 
he now holds, with residence in Washington. He was married 
March 11, 1885, to Miss Blanche Wheaton Vaughn, a daughter 
of Daniel W. Vaughn, a banker of Providence, R. I. 

They have one daughter, Attola Vaughn Nesmith, born in 
Washington, December 13, 1889. 



ALBERT FRANCIS NEWTON, A.A.Q. 

Albert F. Newton was born at Salmon Falls, N. H., April 3, 
1848. His father, Elbridge Newton, was a descendant of Richard 
Newton, who emigrated from England, and settled in Sudbury, 
Mass., in 1640. His mother was Jerusha E. Stearns, of Grafton, 
Vt. Newton prepared for college at the academies in Reed's 
Ferry and Francistown, N. H. In common with so many others, 
he taught school each year of the college course. In the Fall of 
'74 he entered Andover Theological Seminary. During the Sum- 
mers of '75 and '76 he preached in Frankfort and Jonesport, Me. 
On graduation, in 'yy, he was ordained pastor of the Congrega- 
tional Church at Townsend, Mass., where his pastorate of five 
years was marked by the admission of thirty-one members to the 
church. In 1882 he became pastor of the Union Church in Marl- 
borough, Mass. He remained there ten years, and in 1892 was 
called to the Rochester Avenue Congregational Church, in Brook- 
lyn, N. Y. After five years in that city he removed to Haverhill, 
Mass., where he is now pastor of the Union Congregational 
Church. In December, 1877, he was married to Miss Mary 
Elizabeth Wright. Their first children were twins, of which one 
lived but a few days. They now have three children, Alice B. and 
Florence, students at Mt. Holyoke Seminary, and Helen G., now 
in the High School. During his Marlborough pastorate Newton 
made a long trip through Europe, in company with a parishioner 
and Pettee of '73 During all his pastoral life he has been a fre- 
quent contributor to the papers and magazines. While in Brooklyn 
he became interested in scientific temperance instruction in schools, 
and was secretary and treasurer of the New York State Central 
Committee, having this work in charge. As a result of their 
efforts, such instruction was provided for by legislative enactment 
in New York State. During this pastorate he published a small 
paper, The Glad Tidings, in the interests of his church work. 
He has published many papers on social topics, and has been 
a frequent lecturer on temperance. He also has given 
several lectures based on his travels in Europe. In 1888 he de- 
livered two lectures before the Lake View Chautauqua Assembly. 
Another series of lectures included the subjects "Plymouth and 
Salem," "Maria Theresa," "Marie Antoinette," "The Church in 
the Sixteenth Century," "John Calvin," "The Huguenot Emigra- 
tion," "The Spanish Armada," etc. 



FRANK NESMITH PARSONS, A.K.E. 

Frank N. Parsons, who came within one of standing at the 
foot of the class of '74 in order of age, was a son of Rev. Benjamin 
F. Parsons, a graduate of Bowdoin, in the class of '41, and Mary 
A. Nesmith. He entered life, and the State of New Hampshire 
on the third day of September, 1854, at Dover, where 
his father was pastor of the Congregational Church. Af- 
ter passing through the grammar schools of Dover, he entered 
Pinkerton Academy at Derry, N. H., for his preparatory course, 
becoming one of the delegation which entered Dartmouth in 1870. 
While in college he began teaching, Junior winter at Windham, 
N. H., and Senior winter he taught at Eastham. In the Fall after 
graduation he became principal of the High School at Franklin, 
N. H. The following year ('75-76) he was sub-master in the 
High School at Nashua. At the close of the academic year he 
returned to Franklin, and began the study of law in the office of 
Hon. Austin F. Pike. The second year of his professional studies 
found him again in Derry, but he returned to Franklin in '78, 
where he was admitted to the New Hampshire bar, and, in '79, 
began practice in partnership with his former preceptor and 
prospective father-in-law. This partnership was terminated only 
by the death of Mr. Pike, in 1886. From that date, until his 
appointment as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of 
New Hampshire in 1895, he continued by himself the business 
of that firm in the general practice of law, retaining his offices at 
Franklin, where he still resides. From 1881 to '86 he was the 
official State Law Reporter, and in 1889 a member to the New 
Hampshire Constitutional Convention, in which his position in 
reference to several important amendments was later endorsed at 
the polls, not only by his own town, but by his county and the 
State as well. Parsons has several times been Mayor of the city 
of Franklin, and was quite recently reelected a member of the 
Board of Park Commissioners. While '74 had, more than a 
decade ago, supplied numerous judges for Western courts, Par- 
sons was the first to 'find a seat upon the supreme bench. His 
appointment to the highest court of the State, at the age of forty- 
one, indicates the reputation he had attained as a lawyer and 
jurist. On the 26th of October, 1880, he was married to Miss 
Helen F. Pike, a daughter of Hon. Austin F. Pike, of Franklin. 
They have no children. 



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WILLIAM EVERETT PETRIE, 0.A.X. 

William E. Petrie was born in Brooklyn, New York, Novem- 
ber 14, 1850, and prepared for college at the Monson Academy. 
Although he had suffered since childhood from incurable disease, 
whose manifestation at frequent intervals most seriously 
interfered with his work, nevertheless, with unwavering 
purpose and unfailing courage he completed the studies of the full 
classical course, and graduated with Commencement honors. The 
strain was such, however, that for three years following gradua- 
tion he did not feel justified in undertaking any work demanding 
regular attention at definite times. During these years he was 
engaged in making mechanical drawings for machinery, inven- 
tions, etc. He then took up private teaching, and, finding his 
health improved, in '78 he became principal of a school at Ridge- 
wood, L. L, where he taught the advanced branches to students 
fitting for college, sending one boy to Dartmouth. 

In 1880 he became the head of a similar school at Lake Grove, 
Suffolk County, L. I., where he had two assistants, and added 
surveying to the subjects he taught. At the end of one year his 
health again forced him to relinquish his work. During these 
years of teaching he became most favorably known to the teachers 
of Kings, Queens, and Suffolk Counties, and was an active mem- 
ber of the Teachers' Association in each. He continued to retain 
not only his membership in all three associations, but also the 
presidency of one and vice-presidency of another for some time 
after he gave up active work as a teacher. On leaving his school 
he resumed his former occupation as a mechanical draughtsman. 
Soon after this he became a resident of Flatlands, L. L, and it 
would seem that his health has persistently become worse rather 
than better, although he was aftenvards engaged in the perfection 
of an invention which promised to be of value. At present he is 
under medical treatment in a sanitarium at Sonyea, N. Y. 



CHARLES HOLMES PETTEE, K.K.K, 

Charles H. Pettee is a son of Horace Pettee, and Elizabeth 
Fairbanks Wilson, and was born February 2, 1853, at Manchester, 
N. H., where his father was a general merchant. His ancestors 
for several generations were residents of that section of the State 
and three of his great grandfathers were soldiers of the Revolu- 
tion. Pettee was prepared for college at the Manchester High 
School, and began his career as a teacher Sophomore winter 
at Welles, Me. On graduation he entered the Thayer School 
of Civil Engineering at Dartmouth, from which he received 
the degree of C.E. in 1876. His Summer vacations from 
'73 to '76 were spent in Coast Survey work, under 
Prof. Quimby, and in railroad location along the line 
of the Quebec Central Railroad in Canada. During his second 
year in the Thayer School he was an instructor in the Agricul- 
tural College, and upon graduation, in '76, became also an assistant 
instructor in the Thayer School. In the Spring of 1877 he was 
appointed Professor of Mathematics and Civil Engineering in the 
New Hampshire College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. A 
few years later he was made Dean, both of which positions he still 
holds, having removed from Hanover to Durham, N. H., in 1893, 
when the State College was located in that town. While a resi- 
dent of Hanover he became interested in the problem of obtaining 
a water-supply for the town, and was the first to suggest the 
availability of the basin in the town-farm district, back of Balch 
Hill. At that time he made surveys for a dam and storage-basin, 
estimated the watershed, and so conclusively demonstrated its 
adequacy and reliability that the project was endorsed by vote 
of the precinct. The present lake on this site, which was made 
possible through financial support from the college, by its lavish 
supply of pure water bears constant testimony to the soundness 
of Pettee's judgment and the accuracy of his engineering skill. 
On the removal of the State College to Durham, he took part in 
overseeing the construction of the new buildings, waterworks, 
etc., involving an outlay of over $200,000. He has been actively 
and practically interested in the improvement of roads and in 
all agricultural movements. He is a member of the American As- 
sociation for the Advancement of Science and the Society for the 
Promotion of Engineering Education. He was married July 24, 
1877, to Miss Luella Elizabeth Swett, of Hanover. They have 
four children, Alvera, born in 1881 ; Horace J., born in 1883; 
Sarah E., born in 1886, and Charles Swett, born in 1895. 



CLARENCE MARSHALL PIERCE, W.Y. 

Clarence M. Pierce was a son of William B. Pierce, a carpen- 
ter, and Hannah A. Berry, of Biddeford, Me., where he was born, 
June 26, 1852. He was prepared for college at the Biddeford 
High School, and under private tutors. After graduation 
it is believed that he taught for a short time, but he 
very soon became bookkeeper in the store of a relative 
in Biddeford, certainly as early as '75. It had been 
his intention to study for a profession. His death, which 
occurred on January 1, 1876, made the first break in the ranks of 
'74. From all accounts, it seems to have been due to appendicitis. 
In the morning, with full consciousness of his approaching end, 
he distributed keepsakes among his friends, spoke farewell words 
to each, and then, asking to be raised, as death approached, sang 
with his mother, "Safe in the Arms of Jesus." 

Sixteen members of the class were present at his funeral. 



FREDERICK SAILLY PLATT, 8.A.K. 

Frederick S. Piatt, the son of Theodorus and Maretta 
(Nichols) Piatt, was born September 19, 1853, at Enosburg, Vt., 
where his father was engaged in farming. In 1857 the family 
removed to Plattsburgh, Vt., where he was fitted for college in 
the academy. He indulged in teaching during his college 
course but once, in senior year, at Jericho, Vt. On graduation he 
began the study of law at Brandon, Vt., and was admitted to 
the Vermont bar in 1877, since which time he has been a practising 
lawyer at Poultney. From 1886 to 1888 he was State's Attorney 
for Rutland County. He has been a member several times of 
each branch of the Vermont Legislature, and is now State Senator 
for Rutland County. Since December 1, '98, he has been State 
Inspector of Finance. He has been more than commonly suc- 
cessful in both his professional work and business enterprises. 
The latter have been located largely in the West, and have neces- 
sitated frequent trips to that part of the country. 

On June 9, 1880, he was married to Miss Clara E. Badger. 
They have three children, Theodora B., born August 18, 1884; 
George W., born March 5, 1886; and Frederick S., Jr., born May 
10, 1890. 






SAMUEL LELAND POWERS, A.K.E. 

Samuel L. Powers, a representative of the more mature mem- 
bers of the class, was a son of Larned Powers, a farmer of Cor- 
nish, N. H., and Ruby (Barton) Powers. He was born in 
Cornish, October 26, 1848, and was a member of that strong dele- 
gation which Kimball Academy, at Meriden, contributed to the 
class of '74. In conformity with the custom of those days he 
taught three winters of the college course at Winchester and 
Lancaster, N. H., and "on the Cape." For a short time after 
graduation he studied law at Nashua. He was then for a year 
at the Law School of the New York University, and, after a very 
brief period in the office of Verry & Gaskell, at Worcester, Mass., 
was admitted to the bar in November, 1875. The following 
month he opened an office in Boston, in partnership with McCall, 
under the firm name of McCall & Powers. This partnership was 
dissolved at the end of the year, and Powers soon after entered 
the office of Col. J. H. Benton, where he remained until 1882, 
when he formed a partnership with his brother, E. B. Powers, of 
the class of '62. On the dissolution of this firm, in 1886, he 
became general counsel for the New England Telephone and Tele- 
graph Company, since which time he has been engaged as the 
counsel of this and other electrical corporations. In 1897 he 
formed a partnership with E. K. Hall, Dartmouth, '92, and M. B. 
Jones, Dartmouth, '94. This firm is engaged principally in cor- 
poration law, representing a large number of corporations. Pow- 
ers is a member of the University and Algonquin Clubs of Bos- 
ton and the Newton and Hunnewell Clubs of Newton. Until 
1882 he resided in Boston, since when his home has been in New- 
ton, Mass., where he has been a member of both branches of the 
city government, President of the Common Council, and a mem- 
ber of the School Board. He has recently founded a scholarship 
at Dartmouth. 

On June 21, 1878, he was married to Miss Eva Crowell, a 
daughter of Prince S. Crowell. They have one son, Leland, born 
July 1, 1890. Powers has frequently been the orator at memorial 
and political celebrations, and at times a contributor to the popular 
magazines. We are in possession of the title of but one such 
article, "Use of Public Ways by Private Corporations," published 
in The Arena for May, '92. 



ALBERT WALTER SCOTT PROCTER, 0.A.X. 

Albert W. S. Proctor, the son of Albert Proctor, a native of 
New Hampshire, and Maria Shurts, was born Janurary 13, 1850, 
at Chestnut Grove, in the town of Tewkesbury, N. J., where his 
father was a school-teacher. Proctor, whom '74 affection very 
appropriately christened "The Judge," was prepared for college 
at Schooley's Mountain Seminary, New Jersey, and the Mountain 
Home Institute at Port Jervis, N. Y. He began to teach school 
as early as 1867, and continued this training until 1870, not only 
in the public schools, but also in the seminary where he was fitted. 
During the college course he taught each winter both public and 
private schools. On graduation he at once began the study of 
law at the Law School of the University of the City of New 
York and in the office of Gilbert Sayres at 397 Fulton street, 
Brooklyn. The following May (1875) he received the degree of 
LL.B., and was admitted to the bar, thereby making the record 
for the class of '74 for speed in acquiring a profession. In August 
of the same year he opened an office in East New York, then a 
suburb of Brooklyn, and the same month won his first case. It 
should be said that the Judge's law studies were begun at the age 
of 15, and were not entirely neglected during his years of teach- 
ing, which began when he was 17, or while preparing for college. 
In 1877 ne removed his offices from East New York to 397 Ful- 
ton street, Brooklyn, where he has since continued in the suc- 
cessful practice of his profession. More than any member of the 
class, so far as our knowledge goes, he has escaped those tell-tale 
marks which score the passing years. He was married in De- 
cember, 1877, to Mrs. Ruhamah Du Bois. He has no children of 
his own. Since 1880, with his wife and family, 'he has resided 
at 24 Herkimer street, Brooklyn. 



JAMES WALLACE PUTNAM, e.A.X. 

James W. Putnam was born August 29, 1849, at Amherst, 
N. H. His parents, Barnes Bigelow Putnam, a carpenter 
and builder, and Lucy (Bills) Putnam, soon after re- 
moved to Nashua, where Putnam was fitted for col- 
lege in the high school. In accordance with the almost 
universal custom he supplemented his college training by three 
winters of school-teaching at Princeton, Mass., Litchfield, and 
Hillsborough Bridge, N. H. Immediately after graduation he be- 
gan the study of medicine at Hanover, and received his degree 
from the New Hampshire Medical College in the Fall of 'jj. 
Without delay he opened an office in Lyons, N. Y., where he has 
remained since, as the success which attended his first years has 
increased with such persistency and in such large degree as to give 
no chance for discontent. 

His retiring disposition has not served to hide his worth from 
his fellow-townsmen. He was for five years Mayor of Lyons, and 
non-continuance in this office was due solely to his refusal of 
another term. For thirteen years he was United States Pension 
Examiner. He has held all the offices in the gift of the County 
Medical Society, as well as that of Vice-President of the New 
York Central Medical Association. He has been for a number of 
years President of the Lyons Electric Light and Power Company, 
and is a director in several manufacturing corporations in Lyons. 
Ill health some years since forced him to contract his professional 
work, and led to his becoming interested in business enterprises 
and agricultural matters. He owns a large farm at Lyons and a 
ranch in Kansas, which he carries on by way of amusement pri- 
marily, though, unlike most amateur farmers, he also makes them 
a financial success. The summer of 1892 he spent travelling in 
Europe for pleasure and health. During the last year or two his 
sufferings from his old-time enemy, asthma, have so decreased as 
to afford hope that he will again be able to meet the demands of 
an extensive practice, which has always been at his command. 
Putnam has never married, but is beginning to appreciate his 
mistake, although his beautiful home in Lyons has had a worthy 
mistress in his sister. 



CHARLES ELIHU QUIMBY, A.A0. 

Charles E. Quimby, born in New Ipswich, N. H., June 21, 
1853, is the elder son of Elihu Thayer Quimby, of the class of 
1 85 1, and Nancy Aldana Cutler. His preparatory studies were 
begun at the New Ipswich Appleton Academy, of which his father 
was principal from 185 1 to 1864, and continued, after removal to 
Hanover on his father's appointment as Professor of Mathematics, 
in private schools and at the Norwich Academy. In the Fall of 
'74 he became principal of the High School at Gardner, Mass., 
and the following July began the study of medicine at Hanover, 
as the pupil and surgical assistant of Dr. A. B. Crosby. In the 
Spring of '77 he went to New York to complete his medical 
course, where he received the degree of M.D. from the University 
of the City of New York in February, 1878. The following 
month he entered the surgical service of Bellevue Hospital. This 
service of eighteen months he completed October 1, 1879, an< ^ be- 
gan the practice of medicine at Great Falls (Somesworth), N. H., 
in February, 1880. In October, '82, he returned to New York, 
where he has since continued in practice. In October, '84, he 
became the assistant of Dr. A. L. Loomis, a relation which 
continued until the death of Dr. Loomis in '95. In '85 he was 
appointed quiz master of medicine in the Medical Department of 
the New York University. A year later he was made lecturer, 
and subsequently assistant and adjunct professor to the 
chair of medicine, then held by Dr. Loomis. At the death of Dr. 
Loomis in '95 he was appointed clinical professor of medicine, 
which position he now holds. From 1890 to '95 he was assistant 
visiting physician to Bellevue Hospital, and since '95 has been 
visiting physician to the City Hospital. He is a member of the 
New York Academy of Medicine, the County Medical Society, 
and the American Climatological Association, of which he was for 
one term Vice-President. He is now President of the Society of 
Alumni of Bellevue Hospital, and a member of the A.A.Q. and 
University Clubs. 

His contributions to medical literature, which may be found in 
"Buck's Handbook of Universal Medical Sciences" and the 
"American System of Medicine," as well as in medical journals, 
have been almost entirely on diseases of the heart and lungs. 
In '84 he made a trip to the Pacific Coast, and in '90 to Europe. 
On September 28, 188 1, he was married to Miss Julia M. Cobb, 
of Hanover. They have two children, Aldana R., born June 20, 
1888, and Dorothy M., born February 21, 1892. 



ROBERT GATES REED, 8.A.X. 

Robert G. Reed is a son of Joseph Reed and Ann J. Howard, 
and was born November 10, 1850, at Lonsdale, R. L, where his 
father was connected with the cotton manufacturing interests. 
Reed was fitted for college at Lonsdale and at the New Bedford 
High School. He did not entirely miss the Dartmouth man's best 
training, have taught Junior Winter in Berlin, Mass. On grad- 
uation he began the study of medicine at the homeopathic school 
of the Boston University, from which he received his degree in 
1877. He then began practice at New Bedford, Mass. He re- 
mained there until 1880, when he removed to Woonsocket, R. I., 
where he still continues in practice. While in New Bedford he 
was several times a member of the City Council, a member of the 
Board of School Committee, and of Park Commissioners, acting 
as secretary and treasurer for this latter board. He is a member, 
and, in 1895, was President of the Rhode Island Homeopathic 
Medical Society. He is also a member of the Massachusetts Sur- 
gical and Gynecological Society, and the American Institute of 
Homeopathy. In 1896 he was appointed by the Governor of 
Rhode Island Medical Examiner for District No. 6. He is also 
connected with many secret orders, as the Masons, Knights Tem- 
plars, Odd Fellows, Knights of Honor, New England Order of 
Protection, and others. He was married on October 18, 1880, to 
Miss Eudora C. Libby. They have no children. 



SAMPSON AUGUSTUS REED, 0.A.X. 

Sampson A. Reed, son of Elisha B. Reed, a merchant of Boston, 
was born in that city on December 8, 1849, an d resided there until 
1855. His college preparation, as obtained in the schools of He- 
bron, Me., was improved by experience as a pedagogue in nearly 
a score of schools. His college course, which began with the 
class of '74, sophomore Fall, also found him teaching each win- 
ter. For a time after graduation he was engaged in introducing 
school-books, but late in the Fall of '75 began the study of law 
in Minneapolis, Minn., where he was admitted to the bar, and has 
ever since remained in the practice of his profession, with col- 
lateral interests in real estate and mining. In 1880 he was a 
director and secretary of a gold-mining company. Rumor alone 
supplies further details, but the report seems well founded, that 
Reed has manifested unusual business traits, that have secured 
him large financial success. He was married November 7, 1877, 
to Miss Abbie Eells, of Belfast, Me. They have one daughter, 
Abble M., born June 21, 1887. 



JAMES BURTON RICHARDSON, A.K.E. 

James B. Richardson was born February 20, 1850, at Corinth, 
Vt., where his father, Daniel M. Richardson, was engaged in 
farming. During his preparatory course at Barre, Vt. Academy, 
he began teaching in the winter of 1865, and so continued without 
a break up to and through his college course. On graduation he 
returned to Barre as principal of the Academy. At the end of 
two years his health forced him to take absolute rest. By the Fall 
of 1877 he was sufficiently recovered to enter the Union Theo- 
logical Seminary in New York, from which he graduated in May, 
1880. Declining attractive offers of pastorates in Boston, Mass., 
and Albany, N. Y., he entered upon the missionary work of the 
Congregational Church and was sent to Kansas to become pastor 
of the church in Hiawatha, where his entire ministerial life has 
been spent and attended with most gratifying success. In 
September, 1890, upon recommendation of (now) Governor Mor- 
rill of Kansas, he was appointed by President Harrison, United 
States Consul at Matamoras, Mexico. This position he held until 
1893, when, returning to Hiawatha, he resumed his former charge. 
While in Mexico, his success in adjusting certain matters that 
gave promise of provoking international complications received 
most nattering recognition from President Diaz, who referred to 
Mr. Richardson by name, according him due honor in his annual 
message of December, 1890. It was during Richardson's term of 
service that the "Gazzo Revolution" occurred and he is one of a 
trio to whom those best acquainted with the facts give the largest 
share of credit for ridding the Rio Grande Valley of its bandit 
element. Aside from his pastoral work he has become known in 
his State as a public speaker on educational topics, and in 1886 
was honored by the State University with the degree of D.D. He 
has never married. His health, which at times has hampered his 
work, is now completely restored. 



WILLIAM STONE RIX, K.K.K. 

William S. Rix, another of '74' s farmer's sons, was born to 
Daniel and Florella (Stone) Rix, December 14, 1847, assumedly 
at some place in the United States. He was one of the Meriden 
contingent that formed so strong an element in the class, and like 
most of the others had fixed his preparatory studies by teaching, 
a process which he continued each winter of the college course. 
Just what Rix did the tirst year out of college is unknown, but in 
1875 an d 1876 he was studying something, possibly law at Har- 
vard, although he gives his residence from 1875 to 1878 as Yar- 
mouth. It seems probable that a High School which he 
taught for two years was in Yarmouth. It is certain that since 
about 1876 he has been uninterruptedly engaged in teaching. 
From 1879 to 1888 he was in Cincinnati, O., as instructor in a 
preparatory school, and from 1889 to 1893, in a similar position 
at Buffalo, N. Y. In 1893 he removed to Utica, N. Y., where he 
established a private school at 343 Genesee street, which is dis- 
tinctly a college preparatory institution, although having a lower- 
grade course as well as courses for special students. Rix was 
married in November, 1877, to Miss Sarah Mathews Taylor. 
They have had four children, of whom three are living. Mal- 
colm W., born July 19, 1880; John B., born March 24, 1882; 
Genevieve S., and Evelyn M., born August 15, 1890. The last died 
when ten-months old. 

Rix has been at times a public speaker and lecturer and recently 
delivered a lecture on "Science Day," before the New Century 
Club of Utica. 



HERBERT PERCY ROLFE, K.K.K. 

Herbert P. Rolfe was born in Tunbridge, Vt., on August 30, 
1849. His parents were Gustavus Rolfe, a lawyer, and Eliza 
(Marston) Rolfe. He began teaching in 1865, and after irregular 
attendance on district schools attended the Essex Academy for 
two terms in 1867 and 1868, and completed his preparation for 
college by three terms at Kimball Union Academy. It would seem 
that some time previously his father had become a farmer, as 
Rolfe himself includes among his places of preparatory study "the 
farm and wood pile." His future success is foreshadowed even 
at this time by his own statement of "while fitting for college I 
paid my own way and gave $100 a year to my father." During 
the college course he did the same, in part by teaching each 
winter. From 1874 to 1876 he was assistant superintendent of 
the Ohio Institute for the Blind at Columbus, and from 1876 to 
1879 superintendent of schools and principal of the High School 
in Helena, Montana. During the years 1875 an d 1876 he was also 
a law student in the office of Ex-Governor Edgerton in 
Akron, Ohio, and in 1877 and 1878, in the office of Saunders and 
Cullin in Helena. He was admitted to the bar in 1879 an d began 
practice in Fort Benton. He removed to Great Falls, Montana, 
in 1884. There is a note referring to his having been connected 
with The Butte Daily Miner for a short time in 1879. Disregard- 
ing chronological order, these facts may be given : Rolfe was for a 
time Probate Judge of Cascade county, Mont. ; president of the Bar 
Association of the same county; attorney for the Great Falls Town- 
site Co. ; a director of the St. Paul and Manitoba R. R., and pro- 
prietor and editor of the Great Falls Daily Leader. He made 
many investments in real estate which so increased in value as to 
give large returns, so that at the time of his death, Rolfe, if not 
the richest man in the class, certainly had acquired the largest 
fortune obtained by unaided efforts. He was married August 8, 
1876, to Miss Martha A. Edgerton of Akron, Ohio. They had 
several children, of which these names are known : Mary P., born 
December 25, 1877; Harriet L., born October 24, 1879; Helen M., 
born January 30, 1882; Lucia I., born February 23, 1884; Herbert 
E., and Martha E., born January 22, 1886, and Hester, born 
December 18, 1889. In 1886 he celebrated the anniversary of 
his wedding in an elegant mansion recently built on the outskirts 
of Great Falls, the city for which he had surveyed the site. His 
death occurred on March 28, 1895. 



HENRY GERRISH SANBORN, K.K.K. 

The class records give no information concerning Sanborn 
previous to his entering college beyond the date of his birth, 
January 3, 1852, and that his father, Hazen Sanborn, was a resi- 
dent of New Hampton. In Senior year he was recorded as coming 
from Auburn, N. H. The class reports after graduation state that 
in 1875 he was teaching Greek, Latin, and German at Placerville, 
Cal. On November 10, 1876, he sailed for Australia, with the in- 
tention of going into business. In 1877 he was a private tutor on 
a stock-farm with address at Conabarabran, N. S. W. In 1879 
he returned to America, visited N. H., and then went to Montana, 
where for a time he was near Rolfe. In 1882 he was engaged in 
stock-raising in Montana. In 1885 he was married to Miss Agnes 
J. Bryant. His death occurred September 15, 1886, at Diamond 
Springs, Colorado. 



CLARENCE WATKINS SCOTT, K.K.K. 

Clarence W. Scott, son of Charles A. and Betsey (Watkins) 
Scott, was born on August 20, 1849, m Plymouth, Vt. In this 
town his father, a graduate of Castleton Medical College, was a 
practising physician for over fifty years. Scott began his pre- 
paratory studies at the Chester Academy in 1865. After three 
terms there he was in the Randolph Normal School for one term 
in 1867, the Black River Academy two terms in 1868, and Kimball 
Union Academy in 1869 and 1870, where he joined the Dartmouth 
delegation. He began teaching winter schools as early as 1866, 
and continued without break until Senior year. He too was in 
Boxford. During Senior year, while acting with Crawford as 
college librarian, he published an article in the Dartmouth, propos- 
ing a plan for consolidating the college and society libraries, 
which at that time were three distinct collections with separate 
catalogues and under independent administrations. This plan, 
which was adopted by the "Social" and "Frater" societies, ap- 
proved by the faculty and accepted by the trustees, led to his ap- 
pointment on graduation as college librarian, saddled with the 
task of amalgamating the three libraries. To this almost hopeless 
undertaking he devoted himself for the next four years. While 
a rapid or even complete rearrangement of the books in the old 
quarters was impossible, Scott mapped out the general plan of 
classification and started a card catalogue of the entire collection. 
During this time he began the study of law and also taught in the 
Agricultural College. After leaving the library in 1878 he was 
for a year and a half in the law office of Walker & Godard at 
Ludlow, Vt, and was admitted to the Vermont bar at Woodstock, 
in December, 1879. Having given instruction in the Agricultural 
College at intervals from 1878 to 1881, in that year he was ap- 
pointed Professor of English Language and Literature. This 
position he still holds as expanded to include History and Political 
Science since the removal of the State Institution to Durham. 
Scott has published some articles on "Libraries" and "Agricul- 
tural Education" and rewrote the article on "Agriculture" in the 
last edition of the "International Encyclopaedia." In 1888 he 
spent four months in European travel. He was married at Du- 
luth, Minn., on April 30, 1888, to Miss Hattie Maria Field, 
daughter of C. A. Field, formerly of Hanover. They have two 
children, Charles Field, born January 23, 1891, and Susie Helen, 
born July 30, 1895. 



FREDERICK CHESTER SOUTHGATE, W.Y. 

Frederick C. Southgate was born to Robert and Mary (Swan) 
Southgate at Ipswich, Mass., on January 28, 1852. His father 
was a minister and graduate of Bowdoin in 1826. Until the age 
of sixteen he attended the schools at Ipswich, and then, for about 
a year, was a student at the Wethersfield Commercial College. 
From that school he went to Phillips Academy, Andover, to be- 
come a classmate with Taylor and Cogswell. Southgate never 
indulged in teaching, but after graduation at once began the 
study of law in the office of Warren C. French, at Woodstock, Vt., 
where he was admitted to the bar in December, 1876. His posi- 
tion in the office was changed by this event from that of student 
to partner. This partnership with Mr. French, who within the 
year became his father-in-law, was broken only by the death of 
the senior member. Since that time Southgate has continued his 
professional work alone. He was married October 31, 1877, to 
Miss Anna S. French of Woodstock, a daughter of his legal part- 
ner. Her death occurred in 1895, as the result of acute 
pneumonia. They had two children, Frances Swan, born Septem- 
ber 7, 1878, and Richard Steele, born August 4, 1885. On June 
24, 1897, Southgate was married to Miss Helen E. Marsh, a 
daughter of Owen T. Marsh, Esq. We are confident that he has 
held official positions of honor and trust conferred by his fellow 
townsmen, for he is the same genial fellow as of old, but his report 
is silent upon such points. 






GEORGE HURTER STEVENS, A.K.E. 

George H. Stevens was born at the home of his parents, George 
and Elizabeth (Kimball) Stevens in Mount Vernon, New Hamp- 
shire, July 19, 1853. His father, a graduate of Dartmouth in 1849, 
was a lawyer, and soon after the birth of his only son, removed 
from New Hampshire to Lowell, Mass., where he became one of 
the leaders of the bar, and was for some time district attorney. 
Stevens was prepared for college at the Lowell High School. 
While in college he was, for two winters, a teacher in Massa- 
chusetts. In the Fall of 1874 he took charge of the Academy at 
Colebrook, N. H., but at the end of one term returned to Lowell 
and began the study of law. Late in 1875 he dropped that work 
for studies abroad. In January, 1876, he became a member of 
the University of Leipzig, where he devoted special attention to 
history. Subsequently he was a student at the universities of 
Gottingen, Leipsig, and Geneva, spending in all two and a half 
years of study at the several European universities. Returning to 
Lowell in 1878, he began the practice of law, in which he was 
associated with his father until the latter's death in 1884. Since 
then he has had no partner. He now holds the position of public 
administrator, of bail commissioner, and has recently been ap- 
pointed examiner of titles, under the new registration law. He has 
been interested in real-estate loans, and had charge of the Went- 
worth estate, given to Dartmouth while it was growing to the half- 
million mark. January 30, 1895, he was married to Mrs. Sarah 
E. Jenkinks (nee Clarke) of Brooklyn, N. Y. They have one 
daughter, Esther Elizabeth, born January 4, 1899. 



FRANK SHERWIN STREETER, A.K.E. 

Frank S. Streeter, son of Daniel and Julia W. Streeter, was 
born in Charleston, Vt., August 5, 1853. He received his early 
education in the public schools and his preparatory course at the 
Academy in St. Johnsbury, Vt. He first entered Bates College 
as a Freshman in 1870, but joined the class of '74 at Dartmouth in 
sophomore year. For the first year after graduation he was prin- 
cipal of the High School at Ottumwa, Iowa, and in July, 1875, 
entered the law office of A. P. Carpenter of Bath, N. H. Two 
years later he was admitted to the New Hampshire bar in March, 
1877. After six months devoted to the practice of law in Or ford, 
N. H., he removed to Concord and formed a partnership with 
J. H. Albin, which continued until September, 1879, when he be- 
came a law partner of William M. Chase, under the firm name of 
Chase & Streeter. This partnership was dissolved in 189 1 on 
the appointment of Mr. Chase as associate justice of the Supreme 
Court. In 1892 Streeter formed another partnership which since 
1894 has been Streeter, Walker, & Hollis. In 1885 he repre- 
sented Ward 4 of Concord in the legislature, and was a delegate 
to the National Republican Convention at St. Louis in 1896. In 
1887 ne became connected with railroad litigation in New Hamp- 
shire on behalf of the Concord & Montreal R. R., of which he was 
elected clerk and one of the general counsel in 1891. He continued 
to act for that corporation until its amalgamation with the Boston 
and Maine, when he became active counsel for the latter corpora- 
tion in the State of New Hampshire. Since 1887 he has repre- 
sented railroad and other corporations before the legislature. 

Streeter is now in his second term as trustee of the college, 
where his work has been specially devoted to the real-estate 
interests. He was married November 14, 1877, to Miss 
Lillian Carpenter, daughter of Hon. A. P. Carpenter, from 1881 
to 1896 an associate, and since 1896, chief justice of the New 
Hampshire Supreme Court. They have two children, Julia, born 
in 1878, now a student at Bryn Mawr College, and Thomas Win- 
throp, born in 1883, now in St. Paul's School, Concord. 




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HARRY JORDAN TATTERSON, W.Y. 

Harry J. Tatterson, son of John and Elizabeth (Jordan) 
Tatterson, was born on November 12, 1853, at Saco, Me., where 
his father was engaged in manufacturing. Two years later the 
family moved to Lawrence, Mass.', then in 1866 to Lowell, and in 
1868 to Methuen. Tatterson's early training and college prepara- 
tion were obtained in the public schools of these three cities. Dur- 
ing Junior and Senior -winters he was engaged in teaching at East 
Chatham, Mass., and Langdon, N. H. For something over two 
years after graduation he taught in a boarding-school at New- 
buryport, Mass., at the same time studying law. He afterward 
continued his law studies at So. Berwick, Me., and in 1879 
began practice at Biddeford, where he later was City Solicitor 
for two years. After six years of professional work he 
gave up the law and accepted the position of master of the Birch 
Street Grammar School. This position he held for ten years, and 
for the first seven years of that period was also master of the city 
evening school. Finding himself in comfortable circumstances 
after the death of his father in 1892, he gave up the evening 
school, but retained the other position until just two months prior 
to his death, which occurred at Kennebunkport, where he 
was spending the Summer, July 22, 1895, from apoplexy. He 
never fully recovered from an attack of grippe in 1891, and 
soon after began to manifest signs of spinal disease which 
slowly increased for the following four years. On April 12, 1883, 
he was married to Miss Estelle Morris. They had two children, 
Elizabeth L., born January 30, 1884, and John Morris, born Janu- 
ary 13, 1886. 

Tatterson was a Royal Arch Mason and a Knight Templar, and 
at the time of his death had attained a popularity and such uni- 
versal friendship as are seldom equalled. A most impressive and 
touching tribute to his memory was the eagerness with which 
scores of the French-Canadian millhands, who had been his pupils 
in the evening school, on the day of his funeral, sought during 
their noon hour to look once more upon the face of their friend. 



ARTHUR FAIRBANKS TAYLOR, A.A.0. 

Arthur F. Taylor was the youngest son of Samuel H. Taylor, 
LL.D., for so many years the illustrious principal of Phillips 
Academy, at Andover, Mass., and Caroline (Parker) Taylor. He 
was born at Andover, December 10, 1853, and received his pre- 
liminary education under his father's care, graduating from "Phil- 
lips" in 1870. On leaving college he at once took up the study of 
chemistry and physics in the University of Gottingen, where he 
received the degree of Ph.D., in June, 1876. Soon after, upon his 
return to America, he was appointed Professor of Natural Sciences 
to the Woodruff scientific expedition. In 1878 he became assist- 
ant to the Professor of Physics in the University of Pennsylvania. 
In 1 88 1 he was made Professor of Chemistry in the Case School 
of Applied Sciences in Cleveland, O. In connection with the 
work of organizing that school, in which Taylor had a prominent 
part, he again visited Germany, to purchase the apparatus for his 
own and associated departments. Early in June, 1883, he re- 
signed his position in that school and came to New York, where, 
at the house of an intimate friend, Dr. E. D. Pape, heart disease 
of some years' duration culminated in his instant death, June 28, 
1883. His father, mother, and a brother had all met death from 
the same disease, and Taylor had fully expected that the end for 
himself would come in a similar manner. He was a man of elegant 
presence and engaging manners, a skilful musician, gifted in con- 
versation and belles lettres, and an adept in the use of his pencil 
and crayon. The Cleveland Leader said, at the time of his death : 
"As an instructor he possessed the power of engaging his pupils 
and carrying them with him through the course, so that their 
interest never flagged, and at the same time gaining their friend- 
ship in such manner as to strengthen his influence. Recognizing 
the difference between a chemist and a teacher, he gained the 
reputation of being the two in one." He was never married, and 
his body was taken to Andover, to rest beside his parents and 
brother. 



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MARK WARD, A.K.E. 

Mark Ward, the oldest member of the class, and de jure 
the father of '74 boys, is a son of Richard and Mary (Hull) 
Ward. His father was a farmer of Andover, Vt., where Ward 
was born on October 3, 1843. He began his college 
preparation in Bernardstown, Mass., and completed that work at 
Meriden, where he joined the Kimball crowd that came to Dart- 
mouth in 1870. His first experience as a teacher was in '66. 
This was repeated in %j and '68, and during the winters of 
Sophomore and Junior years. The first class report (May, '75) 
located him in Minnesota, but during '75 and '76 he taught five 
terms as principal of the academy at Chester, Vt. In October, 'yj, 
in company with an invalid sister, he sailed for France, intending 
to be gone some months. On his return, in '78, he began the study 
of law, and in the Fall of '79 was again a teacher in Putney, Vt. 
During the Fall of 1880 he taught mathematics at Saxton's River, 
and the following Winter was teaching at Putney. In May, 1881, 
he entered the law office of Judge James Barrett at Rutland. For 
the years of '83 and '84 he was cashier of a bank at Canton, S. D. 
In 1884 he went to Kimball, S. D., and engaged in business as a 
broker. He had been admitted to the bar in Dakota in 1883, and 
the last class report ('91) states that he also practised law during 
the five years he remained at Kimball, during which time ( , 84~ , 85) 
he was also a member of the Dakota Legislature. In '90 he re- 
turned to the East and became special agent of the New York and 
New Jersey Telephone Company with offices in Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Soon after he returned to Putney, where he has since been engaged 
in the practice of law. He has held many local offices, and is now 
Town Clerk and Treasurer, Overseer of the Poor, and Superin- 
tendent of Schools. He was married July 2, 1885, to Miss Nellie 
F. Barnard of Putney. Mrs. Ward died February 20, 1888, leav- 
ing no children. 



ALBERT PUFFER WARREN, V.Y. 

Side by side on the benches in chapel and class-room sat the 
class-father and the class Benjamin, Warren, one of the youngest 
men who ever graduated at Dartmouth. Albert P. Warren was born 
April 10, 1855, a son of Aaron Russell and Elizabeth (Puffer) 
Warren, at Lowell, Mass., where his father was engaged in busi- 
ness. He was a pupil in the Lowell High School at the time the 
family moved to St. Paul, when he entered the high school of that 
city, from which he graduated, at the age of fifteen, into Dart- 
mouth. Despite his youth, which his features could not conceal, 
he began teaching the Winter of Sophomore year, and repeated 
that experience the following two years, going in Senior Winter 
to Arlington, 111. After graduation he taught Latin and Greek 
for four months in the St. Paul High School, and then began 
the study of law, to be admitted to the bar in December, 1877, and 
enter upon active professional life. In April, '78, he started in 
search of adventure in the far West, and was satisfactorily suc- 
cessful. Going into eastern Montana, he was one of the founders 
of Miles City, where he was lawyer, judge, and cattle-ranchman. 
He and Rolfe (Scott's notes) were admitted to the Montana bar 
on the same motion. At this time, while law was his profession, 
ranching was his occupation. After remaining at Miles City for 
a year, he moved to Ft. Custer, where he lived for two years. In 
1 88 1, having found the absence of law an insuperable obstacle to 
the successful raising cf cattle, when one is hampered by even a 
spasmodic respect for human life, he returned to St. Paul, and be- 
came the junior partner with his former preceptors in the legal 
firm of Lamprey, James & Warren. Three years later he with- 
drew from general practice, to devote his attention to the legal 
business and credits of a wholesale house, in which he had pur- 
chased an interest. In '89, in company with his wife, he spent 
the Winter in California, the Spring in the South, and the Sum- 
mer and Fall on the New England Coast. In '94 he disposed of 
his business interests, but continues as attorney for the largest 
boot and shoe firm in the Northwest. 

Warren was married September 7, 188 1, to Miss Elizabeth 
Stevens, of Lowell, Mass., a sister of his classmate, Stevens, and 
daughter of George Stevens, Dartmouth, '49. 



DANIEL FREDERIC WEBSTER, A.A.&. 

Daniel F. Webster, whose father, Frederick B. Webster was a 
farmer, was born at Litchfield, Conn., on March 14, 1853. He 
was fitted at the academy in Thomaston, Conn., and on entering 
college at once began to apply his knowledge by teaching each 
Winter. For the first three years after graduation he was prin- 
cipal of the high school at Thomaston, meantime studying law 
in the office of A. P. Bradstreet. He was admitted to the bar in 
1877, and at once began practice at Waterbury, Conn., where he 
lived until his death, October 31, 1896. On June 26, 1879, he 
was married to Miss Elizabeth R. Fox of Thomaston, a graduate 
of Vassar. They had four children : Bradford, born in February, 
'8 1 ; Frederick B., born in August, '82, and Benjamin and 
Howard, whose ages are not known. Webster was a descendant 
in the seventh generation of Lieut. Robert Webster, who was a 
member of the committee appointed by the General Court in 1673 
"to view the lands at Matlatuck and report whether they were 
suitable for a plantation." In 1880 he was Clerk of the City 
Court, and in 1883 of the Police and District Court. He was a 
member of the Common Council in 1887, an Alderman in 1888 
and '89, and school visitor for several years. 

In 1 89 1 he was elected Mayor by a large majority, being the 
first Republican to hold that office in Waterbury in twenty-three 
years. In 1894 he represented the Fifth District in the State Sen- 
ate, and was chairman of the Committee on Corporations, and in 
1895 was appointed Prosecuting Attorney in the City Court. His 
death called forth the most flattering tributes to his character and 
ability, as well as his services to the city and State. 






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WILLIAM ROBBINS WHITE, A.K.E. 

William R. White, son of Joseph A. White, a merchant, and 
Ellen (Proctor) White, was born in Cavendish, Vt., October 31, 
1849. His education, after the district-school period, was at 
Black River Academy in Ludlow, Vt., until he joined the Meriden 
men, with whom he graduated from Kimball Academy, and en- 
tered Dartmouth. In college he also was one of the instructors of 
youth for the first three winters. He went directly from his 
academic course to the Dartmouth Medical College, but spent the 
last year of his professional studies at Harvard, where he received 
the degree of M.D. in June, 'jj. The following September he Be- 
gan an eighteen-months' service in the Rhode Island Hospital in 
Providence, and in December, '79, opened an office in that city, 
where he has since remained. On completion of his service as 
interne, he at once became attached to the out-patient service, and 
for the past fifteen years has been visiting physician to the same 
hospital. He is a member of the American Medical Association ; 
American Academy of Medicine ; Rhode Island Medical Society, 
of which he has been secretary; the Providence Medical Associa- 
tion, of which he has been both secretary and president, and the 
Harvard Alumni Association. 

His literary work comprises numerous papers read before the 
above societies, and published in the medical journals. He has 
also been a member of the Providence School Committee for the 
past six years. On December 10, 1879, ne was married in Grace 
Church, Providence, to Miss Helen G. Farmer of Providence, a 
cousin of Lewis G. Farmer, Dartmouth, '72. They have four chil- 
dren : Howard J., age eighteen ; William Edward, age fifteen ; 
Donald P., age thirteen, and Margaret H., age twelve. The older 
son is ready to enter college. White's address is No. 7 Greene 
street. 






REUBEN BEAN WRIGHT, K.K.K. 

Reuben B. Wright, another of '74's sturdy farmer's sons, was 
born to Elihu and Ruth (Bean) Wright, in West Glover, Vt., on 
April 12, 1848. He began his college preparation at the Orleans 
Liberal Institute, continued it by teaching in the winters of 
'67-'68-'69, and then joined the Kimball contingent at Meriden. 
During the college course he still kept up his winter's training in 
the district school. After graduation he was for two years in Yale 
Theological Seminary and then entered Andover Theological Sem- 
inary, where he again graduated (in 'yj) with several other '74 
men. On December 26th following, he was ordained to the minis- 
try at Poplar Grove, 111., but a few months later he took up home- 
missionary work in Minnesota, being located at Dexter and Long 
Meadow. At the end of three years (1880) he accepted a call to 
the church at Crystal Lake, 111. Some years later trouble with his 
throat compelled him to seek the climate of Colorado, where for 
eleven years he labored in several Congregational churches. He 
was then for five years in Pueblo, Col., at the end of which time 
he organized the Tenth Congregational Church in Denver, and 
in less than three years built a church edifice and made the church 
self-supporting. Then for two years he was General Missionary 
of the Congregational churches in Colorado and Wyoming. In 
1893 he went to Boise City, Idaho, and organized the church there, 
of which he is still the pastor. On September 5th, 1877, he was 
married to Miss Alice A. Wood, of Fair Haven, Vt. They have 
two daughters, Edith Alice, aged twenty, and Margaret Helen, 
aged seventeen. 



SCIENTIFIC CLASS 



HENRY BROCKWAY, 2.A.Q. 

Henry Brockway, son of John and Ann (Gile) Brockway, 
was born April 23, 1852, at Pomfret, Vt., where his father was 
engaged in farming. After a course at Meriden and the Norwich, 
Vt., Academy, he entered the Chandler School in the Fall of 1870. 
His report, rendered in 1898, gives no details of his life after 
graduation, merely stating that he is a farmer, engaged in raising 
horses. His residence, as learned from the college list of gradu- 
ates is still at Pomfret. On October 8, 1884, he was married to 
Miss Flora A. Doyle. They have four children, David J., born 
November 5, 1885; Andrew L., born November 13, 1877; Will- 
iam L., born April 22, 1889, and James H., born August 18, 1892. 
In 1888 Brockway was a member of the Vermont Legislature, and 
has been for several years a member of the School Board in 
Pomfret. 



AZRO WHITMAN BURNHAM, 2.A.Q. 

Azro W. Burnham, the son of James Burnham, a farmer of 
Norwich, Vt., was born in that town on July 25, 1849. His prep- 
aratory studies were pursued in the district schools and at Nor- 
wich Academy. But little is known in detail of his life after 
graduation. He went very soon to Moorehead, Minn., and 
entered upon his profession as a Civil Engineer. His business in- 
creased very rapidly until in the Fall of '87 he found himself so 
broken in health from prolonged overwork that he made arrange- 
ments to dispose of his business. But a few days before the 
transaction would have been completed Burnham committed 
suicide when alone in his office. His death occurred about 
Oct. 1, 1887. 



GEORGE JOHNSON CARR, $.Z.M. 

George J. Carr was bom November 28, 1850, in Enfield, 
N. H. He is a son of John P. Carr, a manufacturer, and Emily 
(Cochrane) Carr. His home was in Enfield until his thirteenth 
year, and afterwards at Andover until graduation. His prepara- 
tory education was gained at Andover and Colby Academy in 
New London. While in college he taught one Winter in Palmer, 
Mass. After graduation he at once began the study of law in 
Andover, N. H., with John M. Shirley, Esq. After a year there 
he continued his studies at Lynn, Mass. On admission to the bar 
in 'jy he entered upon practice at Lynn, in partnership with Will- 
iam W. Niles, in whose office he had studied, and where he has 
since remained. He was married March 9, 1880, to Miss Flora 
A. Niles, a daughter of Samuel D. Niles. They now have two 
children, Shirley N., born July 27, 1882, and Katharine, born Sep- 
tember 15, 1889. 



JOHN WINTHROP FLANDERS, &.Z.M. 

John W. Flanders is a son of Benjamin Flanders, a farmer and 
wheelwright, and Mary (Gordon). Flanders. He was born May 
26, 1847, a t Brentwood, N. H., and there gained his early educa- 
tion, until the Winter of '69, when he entered Kimball Academy 
to complete his preparation for college. After graduation he 
went, in September, to New London, where he was in a law office 
until January, y jy. At that time a persistent form of neuralgia 
not only forced him to abandon study, but prevented him from 
undertaking any business until February, '82. Fearing, even 
then, that the confinement of office life might cause a return of 
his trouble, he accepted a position as general travelling agent for 
J. C. Ayer & Co., of Lowell, Mass. This work took him widely 
through the South and West, more especially in Texas, Louisiana, 
and Arkansas. Some years since he was made general manager 
of the travelers' department of that firm. He still calls Brent- 
wood his home, though spending most of his time in the South- 
west. He was married June 3, 1895, to Miss Belle West. They 
have no children. 



TILLOTSON WHEELER GILSON, 2.A.Q. 

Tillotson W. Gilson, son of Alfred and Sarah (Gallup) Gilson, 
was born August 6, 1849, at Hartland, Vt., where his father was 
a farmer. Having exhausted the resources of the village schools, 
he completed his college preparation at Barre Academy, Barre, 
Vt., and in Kimball Union, at Meriden. Twenty-five and thirty 
years ago the habit of teaching school in the Winter was as dis- 
tinctly uncommon with the scientific men as it was universal with 
the academics. Gilson, however, began his experience in this 
direction in the Winter of '69 and '70, and repeated it each Winter 
in college, except Junior year. After graduation he taught for 
three months in the Fall of '74 at Burlington College, Burlington, 
N. J., and then joined the faculty of Selleck's School in Norwalk, 
Conn., where Gates was Professor of Latin and Greek. Early in 
'76 he went to Stamford, Conn., as assistant to H. U. King of 
'j% who was then just starting his now famous "King's School 
for Boys." From Stamford he went to Dartmouth, in '79, and 
entered the Medical College. Before the end of the year he was 
obliged, by ill health, to drop his studies. To obtain a more active 
life, until he should return to medicine, he accepted a position with 
D. Appleton & Co., and for three years was engaged in intro- 
ducing school-books through the New England States. At the 
end of that time he was asked to take the New England agency 
of J. B. Lippincott & Co. He remained with this firm eleven 
years, the last eight as general manager of their educational de- 
partment in Philadelphia. His work there led to an invitation, in 
'93, to become a member of the firm of Ginn & Co., a firm com- 
posed largely of Dartmouth men, with his headquarters in Phila- 
delphia. He was hardly established in this position when, on the 
resignation of their Chicago manager, he was placed in charge of 
that branch of the business, a position which he still holds. Gil- 
son was married September 5, 1877, to Miss Elizabeth L. Ferris, 
a daughter of George B. Ferris of Danbury, Conn. They have 
one son, Henry Brockway, born July 3, 1879. 



CHARLES ORVEL HUNTRESS, Q.ZJL 

Charles O. Huntress, a son of Orvel Huntress, a farmer and 
merchant, of Auburn, Me., and Harriet Fuller Huntress, was 
born at Auburn, March 15, 1848. Two years later his parents 
moved to Boston; then, in '52, returned to Dixville, Me., and 
finally in '59 settled at Clay Center, Kansas. Huntress fitted at 
Manhattan, Kan., teaching meantime, in '64-'65-'66, at Council 
Grove and Waubaunsee, Kan. He joined the class at Dartmouth 
in Junior Fall, and the next year became Second Lieutenant of the 
'74 cadets. He was valedictorian of the scientific class. After 
graduation he was for the year '74-'75 principal of the High 
School at Faribault, Minn. From '75 to 'jj he held the same posi- 
tion in the Franklin School, and from 'yy to '82 in the Washington 
School at Minneapolis. In 1882 he became Second Assistant City 
Engineer of Minneapolis, holding that position for four years. 
For some years after this he was engaged in various business en- 
terprises, of which no details are known, until his report in '98, 
when he was right-of-way agent for the Northwestern Telephone 
Exchange Company of St. Paul, with residence in Minneapolis. 
His present address is 1706 Fourth avenue, South. On July 20, 
1874, he was married to Miss Emma J. Washburn. Mrs. Hunt- 
ress died March 7, 1897, leaving three children : Carl W., born 
November 22, 1877; James, born March 16, 1892, and Mildred, 
born April 10, 1893. 



JAMES BLOOMER JOHNSON, 2. A*. 

James B. Johnson was born at Galena, 111., May 11, 1851. His 
parents, James L., and Sarah (Bloomer) Johnson, in 1864 re- 
moved to Chicago, where his father became a lumber merchant. 
On graduating from the public schools he entered Chicago Uni- 
versity in 1869, where he was a student at the time of the great 
fire in '71. He was then in the employ of the American Express 
Company, until he entered Dartmouth at the beginning of Junior 
year. In July, '74, he became bookkeeper for the firm of Hutt & 
Johnson (his father). This position he retained under the new 
firm, which succeeded to the business, on the death of his father in 
1877, until 1880, when he became a member of the lumber-manu- 
facturing firm of Ware, Johnson & Co., which, in 1885, became 
"Johnson Brothers" on the retirement of Mr. Ware. He is (or 
was) also interested in the grain and stock business of John- 
son & Pardoe at Ulysses and Garrison, Neb. In March, 1882, 
he was married to Miss Ida Webster, of Chicago. At the time of 
his last report (1890) they had no children. 



ROGER SHERMAN JOHNSON, Z.J.&. 

Roger S. Johnson, whose father, Henry Johnson, was a manu- 
facturer of lumber and a real-estate dealer in Northfield, Mass., 
was born in that town, June 10, 1851. His mother's maiden 
name was Martha Wright. His preparatory studies after the 
public schools, were pursued at South Hadley Falls, Mass. After 
graduation, in '74, he entered the lumber business at Traer, Iowa. 
In 1880 he moved to New London, Wis., where he still continues 
the business of manufacturing lumber, boxes, and excelsior. He 
was married August 30, 1877, to Miss Carrie L. Foster. At the 
date of his last report (about '86) they had one child, Bertha A., 
born July 8, 1878. 



ELGIN ALONZO JONES, 0.Z.M. 

Elgin A. Jones, son of John Quincy, and Cynthia (Gould) 
Jones, was born July 30, 1852, at Marlow, N. H., where his father 
conducted an extensive business in the manufacture of doors, sash, 
blinds, and house-trimmings, and also had a large probate busi- 
ness, being one of the old-time country squires. Jones was pre- 
pared for college in the Marlow Academy, and at the McCallum 
Institute of Mount Vernon, N. H. After graduation he returned 
to his home at Marlow, and for a time was associated with his 
father. From '76 to '80 he was Superintendent of Schools, and 
for the year } yy and '78 was principal of the Marlow Academy. 
In 1880 he became a general merchant. The larger share of his 
time, however, is devoted to those interests which are passing from 
the hands of his father, now over eighty years of age, into his 
own, so that he has become in fact, if not in name, "Squire Jones." 
He has a large business in probate work, in conveyancing, and 
insurance, and is actively engaged in surveying and engineering 
work. As a member of the School Board he has been an earnest 
and successful promoter of educational interests. By his 
efforts, largely, the school year in his own town has been increased 
from nineteen (average) to thirty weeks. Throughout his county 
and to a degree in the State he is known as one of the two men 
who organized the first and only County School Board in the 
State, a board which has not only accomplished much good in de- 
veloping uniformity and elevating the standards of public-school 
teaching in the county, but is exerting a powerful stimulating in- 
fluence upon other counties. Jones was married November 24, 
1880, to Miss Sarah C. Boynton. They have no children. 



LOUIS CLINTON MERRILL, 0.Z.M. 

Louis C. Merrill, son of Henry C. Merrill, a merchant, and 
Diantha (Patten) Merrill, was born in Manchester, N. H., on the 
12th of January, 1853. He was fitted for college at the Man- 
chester High School, but did not join the class of '74 until the Fall 
of Sophomore year. After graduation he was engaged in civil 
engineering work at Somerville and Arlington, Mass., for about 
two years. He then became associated with his father in the 
grocery business at Manchester, until July, '77, when he trans- 
ferred his business interests to hardware. This he relinquished in 
1881, to become the selling agent for Stratton, Merrill & Co., a 
flour and grain firm of Concord, N. H. He retained this position 
for ten years, and in July, 1891, became the managing partner in 
the firm of "Eastman & Merrill," fire-insurance agents, in Con- 
cord. In May, 1884, he was commissioned Captain in the New 
Hampshire National Guard, and served for five years as Brigade 
Quartermaster, on the staff of General D. M. White, commanding 
the First Brigade. In January, 1892, he was elected secretary of 
the Concord Mutual Fire Insurance Company of New Hampshire. 
Merrill was married June 29, 1888, to Miss Fanny Wadleigh, 
daughter of Levi C. Wadleigh. They have one son, Henry Wad- 
leigh, born April 20, 1891. 



WILLIAM MORRILL, &.Z.M. 

William Morrill, son of William and Dorothy (Gordon) Mor- 
rill, was born September 15, 1847, at Brentwood, N. H., where 
his father was engaged in farming. After passing through the 
public schools he entered Kimball Union Academy, where he grad- 
uated in 1870 to enter the class of '74. From Dartmouth he re- 
turned to Brentwood, to devote himself to the restful life of a 
farmer. In 1876 he was a member, with so many other 
Dartmouth men, of the Constitutional Convention. For 
the years i88o-'8i and '82 he was Town Treasurer, and for a 
number of years was in the employ of the Amoskeag Manu- 
facturing Company, as surveyor of lumber. During this time 
he lived for two years at Manchester. In 1891 he repre- 
sented his town in the Legislature. In 1 892^94, and 
'96 he was elected Register of Deeds for Rockingham County, 
and, as he was to be a candidate in '96, doubtless still holds that 
office. He was married May 14, 1878, to Miss Ella J. Brown of 
Fremont, N. H. They have one daughter, Mary E., born August 
5, 1887, at Manchester. 



W ALTER PARKER, Z.A.Q. 

Walter Parker was born December 16, 1852, to Joseph C. and 
Emily (Ward) Parker, at Barre, Vt., where his father was a 
farmer. In 1857 his father moved to Queechee, Vt., to engage in 
the manufacture of woolens. Parker was another Kimball Union 
Academy student, graduating in '70, to go directly to Dartmouth. 
After leaving Dartmouth he returned to Queechee and started to 
master the mysteries of woolen manufacture and the secrets which 
contribute to financial success in that business in Vermont. Two 
years later his success justified his becoming a member of the firm 
of J. C. Parker & Co., with satisfaction to all the parties inter- 
ested. Other facts related to his life are as profound secrets as 
those of the woolen business. It is known, however, that he has 
never married, and to the outside world he appears at peace with 
all men, including himself. 



EDWIN OSGOOD PEARSON, Q.Z.M. 

Edwin O. Pearson, son of Moses O. and Nancy (Garvin) 
Pearson, was born in Ncrthfield, Vt., November 8, 1852. In 1854 
his father removed to Manchester, where Pearson prepared for 
college at the high school. On leaving college he was for a year 
in the counting-room of the Manchester Corporation, and then 
took up the study of medicine, graduating at Dartmouth in 1878, 
as valedictorian. The following May he was made second as- 
sistant physician in the New Hampshire Insane Asylum at Con- 
cord. He resigned this position January 26, 1884, and began 
practice at Manchester, N. H., where his death occurred two years 
later, October 28, 1886. In 1884 he was City Physician of Man- 
chester, and at the time of his death was surgeon of the Stark 
Manufacturing Corporation in that city. He was married Febru- 
ary 12, 1884, to Miss Helen Augusta Martin, of Windsor, Vt. 



VICTOR IRA SPEAR, ZJ.fl. 

Victor I. Spear is a son of Jacob A. Spear, a farmer, and Caro- 
line (Flint) Spear. He was born September 20,1852, at Braintree, 
Vt. He was one of the few teachers in his class, having started 
that work in the winter of '69 and '70 in Roxbury, Vt., while 
taking his preparatory course at the Randolph Academy. He also 
taught two winters during the college course. After graduation 
he taught for two years, until 1876, when he returned to 
Braintree to take up the life of a farmer and the raising of 
thoroughbred sheep. In 1880 he was a member of the Vermont 
Legislature, and in 1886 of the Senate. Since 1890 he has been 
a member and secretary of the Vermont Board of Agriculture 
and Cattle Commission. He was married on December 29, 1886, 
to Miss Abbie M. Welch. 



The records, as received from the former secretary of the 
scientific class, contained absolutely nothing relating to three 
men, and the circulars sent during the past five years, though 
not returned, have gained no response. The following is taken 
from the college records : 

Walter Henry Foster, &.Z.M., was born March 9, 1853, 
and entered college from Rutland, Vt. He died April 1, 1878. 

Robert Hawthorn, &.Z.M., was born April 10, 1842, and en- 
tered from Highland, Kan. 

William Henry Pratt, Z A.Q., was born October 23, 1852, 
and entered from West Hartford, Vt. 




CHANDLER BUILDING. 




CROSBY HALL. 



NON-GRADUATES ; ACADEMIC. 

Willard Norris Armington, born November 10, 1849. En- 
tered from Barre Academy. Left in April, '72, and graduated at 
University of Vermont in 1874. 

Clark Dunham Barrows, born April 14, 1850. Entered 
from Newark, O. Left in November, '70. Entered '75 at begin- 
ning of course and graduated with that class. 

Wells Anderson Bingham, whose father, Elisha Bingham, 
was a farmer, was born at East Haddam, Conn., August 7, 1846. 
On the breaking out of the civil war he was among the first to re- 
spond to the call to arms. Entering the army before he was 
seventeen, he fought and endured the hardships of a soldier's life 
for three years. On leaving the army he began preparation for 
college, and some years later became a student at Meriden. He 
entered college, on partial course, omitting mathematics, but at the 
beginning of sophomore year he made up the first year's work 
and took up the full course with such earnestness that he ranked 
in the first ten. He had never fully recovered from the effects 
of army life, and under this excess of work his eyes failed, and 
he left college to enter business. From 1872 to '75 he was a 
manufacturer of paper at Livingston, N. Y. Since '75 he has 
been a wholesale paper merchant in New York City. His place of 
business is now at 150-52 Worth street, and his residence in 
Bloomfield, N. J. Bingham was married October 1 1, 1876, to 
Miss Anna Katharine Miller. They have four children, Ernest 
Cotting, born May 22, 1878; Edgar Miller, born October 15, 1880; 
Kathrine Marjorie, born December 9, 1887; and Wells Anderson, 
Jr., born November 8, 1891. 

Daniel Brackettv, A.A.&. Born November 25, 185 1. Fitted 
at Gorham Seminary, Maine. Left at end of junior year. 

Samuel Joseph Burnham, son of Joseph S. Burnham, was 
born February 13, 1853, at Durham, N. H. Fitted at the Pittsfield 
(N. H.) Academy. Died at Hanover, March 27, 1872. 



Silas Henry Burnham, V.Y., son of Sumner and Christiana 
(Washburn) Burnham, was born April 12, 1848, at Harrison, 
Me., where his father was at that time a farmer. Later the family 
moved to Norway, Me. Burnham taught for two winters during 
his preparatory course at the Hebron Academy, and also for the 
first two winters of the college course. On leaving the class at the 
end of Junior year he took up the study of law in the offices of 
Hon. Chas. F. Libby of Portland, Me., and after admission to the 
bar in 1875, began practice in Norway. He remained in Nor- 
way until 1880, when he turned his face westward and settled in 
Lincoln, Neb. He soon became diverted from law to real estate 
and the placing of loans. This led naturally to the banking busi- 
ness. He organized the First National Bank of Broken Bow, 
Neb., and has continued to be its president. In 1888 he organized 
the American Exchange National Bank of Lincoln, which in 1892 
absorbed the State National Bank of Lincoln, and in '99 bought 
out the First National Bank, the oldest and largest in the city, 
taking the name as well as the business for the united institutions. 
Of this bank he is president and active manager. He was mar- 
ried October 26, 1876, to Miss Eliza Lewis of Glasgow, Ky., 
daughter of Hon. Joseph H. Lewis, for seventeen years a Justice 
of the Kentucky Supreme Court. They have four children, 
Sarah W., Joseph L., Carrie Loise, and Silas H., Jr. 

John Robinson Chalmers, born August 2, 1845. 
Frederic Lucian Clark, born June 18, 185 1. 
Lewis Hayden De Merritt, born March 29, 1849. 
William Spofford Field, born January 26, 1853. 
Isaac Freeman Hall, born April 23, 1847. 
Nathan Adolphus Haskall, born August 15, 1849. 
Isaac Hiller, born July 31, 1852. 
Clarence Henry Hubbard, born July 5, 185 1. 
Tim Blaisdell Merrill, born September 2, 1853. 

Oscar Mack Metcalf, A.K.E., was born June 5, 1846, at Gil- 
sum, N. H. He fitted for college at Westminster, Vt. Left at end 
of Junior year, and in '76 was studying law at Norway, Me. 
In April, 'yj y began practice in Portland, Me., where the class re- 
port of 1880 also located him. Two years later he had removed 
to St. Paul, where he is still in the practice of law. Repeated 
requests for further information have met with no response. He 
is unmarried and is beginning to regret it. 

George Loren Pease, born June 31, 1848. Entered in May, 
'71, from Amherst. Remained but a few months. 



Herbert Field Plimpton, born April 9, 1853. Entered from 
Barre Academy. 

John Murrell Poston, born October 9, 1850, in Clarksville, 
Tenn. Fitted at Marysville and Oakland, Cal. Remained at 
Dartmouth first two terms of Freshman year, then entered class of 
'73 at Yale, at beginning of third term of Sophomore year. Grad- 
uated in '73. After graduation, taught in California a few 
months, then began study of law. Admitted to bar in October, 
'75. Practised in San Francisco until 1880. Then elected City 
Attorney of Oakland. At end of two-year term opened an office 
in Oakland, where, at date of report (1884), ne still remained. 

Truman Bishop Rice, A.A.Q., born December 20, 1847, en " 
tered from Barre Academy. Left about Sophomore year to join 
class of '75, with which he graduated. 

Charles Wesley Savage, A.J.&,, the son of Rev. Isaac A. and 
Mary A. (Clarke) Savage, was born in Holliston, Mass., June 14, 
1852. He entered Dartmouth from the Cambridge High School, 
and ranked as class-leader at the end of Freshman year, when he 
went to Harvard. After graduating, in '74, he taught for a few 
months in Quincy, 111., and then began the study of law, which he 
pursued at Quincy, Detroit, and Boston University, where he 
graduated in '77. He returned to Detroit, and was admitted to 
practice, but eight months later again coming East, settled in 
Lowell, Mass., where he continued in practice as long as his 
health permitted. Soon after leaving college he developed signs 
of pulmonary trouble, and as this disease advanced he was com- 
pelled to abandon professional work 'some time before his death. 
In December, '89, he went to Asheville, in hope of regaining his 
strength, but soon returned to Lowell, where his death took place 
February 20, 1890. 

John Lafayette Ward, born August 11, 185 1. Fitted at 
Bernardston, Mass. Left about Sophomore year. 

James Watson, Jr., born March 14, 1852. Entered September 
I, 1871, from Eldridge, Pa. Separated April 22, 1872. 

James Duncan Upham, born November 7, 1853. Entered 
from Til ton Conference Seminary. 



NON-GRADUATES: SCIENTIFIC. 

Charles Hob art Clark, #.Z.#.,son of Leonard Clark, a mer- 
chant, was born in Hubbardston, Mass., April 28, 185 1. He left 
Dartmouth, to enter the United States Military Academy at West 
Point, from which he graduated in '75, and was appointed Second 
Lieutenant in the First United States Artillery, the 16th of June. 
'75. He was attached to this service until the 16th of June, 
'80 when he was transferred to the Ordnance Department. His 
stations have been in the Indian Territory ; at Key West, Fla. ; Ft. 
Adams, Newport, R. I.; Fortress Monroe; West Point, and the 
armory in Springfield, Mass. He was married April 29, 1880, to 
Miss Helen M. DeRussy, daughter of Rene E. De Russy, a gradu- 
ate of West Point, in 1812. They have two children, Helen 
De R., born December 24, 1881, and Miriam, born March 1, 
1884. 



Clarence Rudolphus Gardner, &.Z.M,, son of William W. 
Gardner, a physician, of Haydenville, Mass., was born August 24, 
1850. He fitted at the Springfield, Mass., High School. He left 
Dartmouth at the end of Sophomore year, to enter the engineering 
department of Tuffts College, from which he graduated in 1874. 
In the Fall of '76 he entered the Medical College of the New York 
University, from which he graduated in '78. The following year 
he was interne at the New York Ophthalmic and Aural Institute. 
At the close of this service he entered upon the practice of medi- 
cine as a specialist in diseases of the eye and ear. 



Edward Brush Kellogg, son of Edward B.and Susan Morris 
Kellogg, was born at Knoxville, 111., June 10, 1854. On graduat- 
ing from the Norwich (Vt.) Academy, he entered Michigan Uni- 
versity. After one year there he spent one year at Dartmouth, 
taking a special course. Following this he was for seven years 
in the retail department of Scribner Brothers in New York City. 
Since then he has been engaged in business, with New York as his 
headquarters. 



Robert Owen Mason, $.ZJ/., son of William G.Mason, a con- 
tractor, was born at Lebanon, N. H., February 4, 1853. In 1856 
his father moved to Concord, where he was fitted in the High 
School. He left Dartmouth at the end of Junior year. His resi- 
dence was in Boston from '73 to '78. He is now in business at 
Burlington, Vt. He was married February 3, 1878, to Miss J. 
Eva Moulton, daughter of Rev. A. K. Moulton, a graduate of 
Hinsdale College. They had one child, Sadie F., born November 
7, 1881. 



Thomas Wilson Montgomery, Z.A.&., born June 19, 1849. 
Entered from Newark, O. Left at end of third year. 



John Talbot, changed to academic course, but did not grad- 
uate. 



John Sydney Walker, born January 26, 1853. Went to Cor- 
nell at end of year. 



Clarence Thurston Barter, George Rainsford Bowen, 
Edward Gay Clarke, names found in catalogue for freshman 
year. 



CLASS OFFICERS. 

ACADEMIC. 

Freshman— President, H. L. Home; Vice-President, F. O. 
Baldwin; Secretary, A. W. Beasley; Treasurer, C. O. Gates; 
Historian, C. H. Moore. 

Sophomore — President, W. H. Davis, S. L. Powers; Vice- 
President, F. O. Baldwin, S. H. Burnham; Secretary, James W. 
Putnam, R. G. Read; Treasurer, A. F. Taylor, M. P. Dickey; 
Historian, E. G. Eastman. 

Junior — President, S. H. Burnham; Vice-President, F. O. 
Baldwin; Secretary, A. W. Beasley; Treasurer, C. W. Scott; 
Historian, H. F. Chase. 

Senior — President, H. G. Brainerd; Vice-President, J. C. 
Barrett ; Secretary, Doane Cogswell ; Treasurer, H. G. Sanborn ; 
Historian, S. L. Powers. 

SCIENTIFIC. 

Freshman — President, John Talbot; Vice-President, R. S. 
Johnson; Secretary and Treasurer, W. H. Foster; Historian, E. 
A. Jones. 

Sophomore — President, C. H. Evans; Vice-President, O. W. 
Burnham; Secretary and Treasurer, W. H. Foster; Historian, 
E. A. Jones. 

Second Sophomore (Junior not given) — President, Walter 
Parker ; Vice-President, E. O. Pearson ; Secretary and Treasurer, 
W. H. Foster; Historian, G. J. Carr. 

Senior — President, V. I. Spear; Vice-President, W. H. Fos- 
ter; Secretary and Treasurer, E. O. Pearson; Historian, G. J. 
Carr. 

JUNIOR HONORS. 

Spoon. Spade. Spurs. Knife. 

Recipient — Badgley. Cogswell. Crawford. Richardson. 
Presenter — Dickey. Nesmith. Scott. Powers. 

GLEE CLUB. 

H. S. Burnham, F. C. Southgate, R. B. Wright First Tenors 

Doane Cogswell, H. F. Chase Second Tenors 

J. B. Richardson, H. N. Allin, A. W. Beasley First Bass 

F. O. Baldwin, H. L. Home Second Bass 



EDITORS OF "THE DARTMOUTH." 

O. A. Nesmith, J. C. Barrett, F. O. Baldwin, H. P. Lewis, 

W. E. Petrie, E. C Crawford, H. H. Hart, H. G. Brainerd, 
E. S. Ball, C. O. Huntress. 
Publishing Committee — G. W. Lee, A. Eaton, H. Brockway. 

EDITORS OF "THE ANVIL." 

S. W. McCall, H. G. Brainerd, A. F. Taylor, S. L. Powers, 

G. W. Lee. 
Business Agent — F. N. Parsons. 

EDITORS OF "THE ^EGIS." 

H. F. Chase, J. C. Barrett, F. Blanchard, 

C. E. Quimby, R. G. Reed, C. W. Scott. 

BASE-BALL HEROES. 

On College Nine — H. S. Burnham, H. L. Home, C. O. Gates, 
E. S. Ball, H. G. Brainerd, G. H. Stevens. 

Freshman Class Nine — Ball, Capt., i b.; Pierce, c; Baldwin, 
p. ; Stevens, s. s. ; Burnham, 2 b. ; Home, 3 b. ; Gates, 1. f . ; Free- 
man, c. f . ; Quimby, r. f . 

Sophomore — Same, with Webster in place of Home. 

Junior — Pierce, Capt., and Brainerd, at 3d base. 

Freshman, Scientific — Carr, Capt., 3 b. ; Dow, c. ; Talbot, p. ; 
Pearson, 1 b. ; Evans, 2 b. ; Gilson, s. s. ; Walker, 1. f . ; Foster, 
c. f. ; Hawthorn, r. f. 

Sophomore — Pearson, c. ; Hawthorn, 1 b. ; W. Morrill, r. f . 

Junior — Johnson, c. ; Jones, 2 b. ; Foster, 1. f . ; Huntress, c. f . 

MEMBERS OF COLLEGE BOAT CREW. 

(From Memory.) 

A. R. Archibald, A. Eaton, C. O. Gates, G. W. Lee. 

SENIOR CLASS CREW. 

Doane Cogswell, bow; F. S. Streeter, 2; A. W. Beasley, 3; 
C. F. Caswell, 4; G. W. Lee, 5; CO. Gates, stroke. 



PRIZES. 

Lockwood Oratorical, 1871 J. A. Aiken (then in '73) 

T . , ~ • 1 o [ S.H. Burnham, W. H. Davis, first 

Lockwood Oratorical, 1872. . X TJ XT A „. t 

/ 1 H. N. Alhn, second 

Latin Prize C. H. Pettee, first; S. W. McCall, second 

Junior Rhetorical S. L. Powers, J. B. Richardson 

Junior Oratorical A. F. Taylor, first; S. L. Powers, second 

Junior Mathematical. . . .C. E. Quimby, first; J. S. Haines, second 

Senior, Kimball Rhetorical F. Blanchard 

Grimes Rhetorical J. C. Barrett, first; H. H. Hart, second 

Senior Prize for General Improvement F. L. Allen 

CLASS DAY SPEAKERS, 
Tuesday, June 23, 1874. 

Introductory Address Charles O. Gates 

Class Orator Henry H. Hart 

Class Poet Ferdinand Blanchard 

Address to the Class Mark Ward 

Address to the President R. G. Reed 

Chronicles Henry G. Brainerd 

Prophecies Clinton H. Moore 

Address at "Old Pine" H. J. Tatterson 

Class Ode William S. Rix 

Marshal — H. L. Home. 

ANNIVERSARY OF SCIENTIFIC DEPARTMENT. 
Tuesday, June 23, 1874. 

E. A. Jones Modernism in Architecture 

Henry Brockway Relation of Science to Manufacture 

George J. Carr Granges and Grangers 

W. H. Foster Nature Subservient to Man 

T. W. Gilson Facility of Communication as Promoting Peace 

R. S. Johnson The Construction of the Hoosac Tunnel 

Walter Parker Johann Friedrich Schiller 

V. I. Spear Aerial Navigation 

Chas. O. Huntress The Prevention and Control of Fires 



COMMENCEMENT SPEAKERS. 
June 25, 1874. 

Salutatory Oration in Latin Charles H. Pettee 

English Oration E. C. Crawford 

The Fanaticism of Reform. 

Dissertation R. B. Wright 

Ancient Schools of Law. 

English Oration F. O. Baldwin 

Classical and Scientific Pedantry. 

Philosophical Oration John A. Aiken 

Relations of Mental and Natural Science. 

English Oration Chas. E. Quimby 

History in Tombs. 

Dissertation , F. C. Southgate 

English and American Poets. 

Rhetorical Disputation C. W. Scott, W. E. Petrie 

Has Eloquence Declined in Our Country? 

Dissertation Joseph L. Caverly 

Foreign Education for American Students. 

English Oration Frank N. Parsons 

Mercantile Credit as a Social Power. 

English Oration F. L. Allen 

Morals in Statesmanship. 

English Oration Homer P. Lewis 

The Novel a Substitute for the Drama. 

Dissertation G. W. Lee 

Watchwords in Politics. 

Political Disputation Edgar L. Morse, W. W. Morrill 

Is Bismarck Justifiable in His Treatment of Catholics ? 

English Oration E. S. Ball 

Conflict of Creeds and Education. 

Philosophical Oration S. W. McCall 

The Philosophy of Reform. 

Dissertation W. H. Davis 

Relation of Vested Rights to Human Progress. 

Philosophical Disputation A. W. Beasley, M. P. Dickey 

Is the Theory of Evolution Defensible? 

Dissertation J. C. Barrett 

Precendents in Law. 

Dissertation E.J. Brown 

Pacific Tendencies of European Diplomacy. 
Valedictory Address Joseph S. Haines 



MASTER OF ARTS. 

BY PERDINAND BLANCH ARD. 

Read at Dartmouth, on taking his Master's degree, June, 1877. 

Time-honored title! brief but comprehensive! 

Of plain A.B. an increment intensive ! 

If still my rhyming dictionaries will 

To furnish wherewithal to drive my quill ; 

If cyclopedias still contain a treasure 

That never yet was set in rhyme and measure ; 

If good Roget has not been put at pawn, 

And with it half my inspiration gone ; 

Though genius elevates his Roman nose 

Because to all alike the title goes ; 

Though wealth may scorn to turn his lazy step 

To take an honor bought and sold so cheap ; 

Though I myself may lack the scanty pittance 

Required among thy beaux to gain admittance; 

I'll haunt the landing near the nuptial chamber, 

Strike up a stanza as each favored member 

Of Seventy-Four shall pay his duties to thee, 

And toast thy health although I cannot woo thee. 

In other days, when mortals took degrees, 

They sought the honor on their bended knees; — 

Wrote rival poems, essays, exegeses, 

Philippics, epics, treatises, or theses ; 

Or bribed the dons, or bought the title straightway, 

By giving funds to build a hall or gateway. 

In brief, A.M. was then desired and sought, 

Dispensed to merit, struggled for, and bought. 

Magister Artium meant the man had travelled 

Quadrivium and Trivium — had unravelled 

The seven arts then taught in learned schools. 

Of plain Arithmetic he knew the rules ; 

Of Euclid's book could demonstrate the tenets; 

Could sing the scale and name the stars and planets. 

Had, most of all, become a good declaimer 

By studying Logic, Rhetoric, and Grammar. 

"How changed, alas!" The bilious critic cries. 

"No more we seek the title as a prize; 

It hangs on every bush, within the reach 

Of men who neither write, or sing, or preach. 

A.B. is given when the limpid mind 

Holds thoughts and facts of every shade and kind 



In saturate solution. Then the sun 
Through three swift-rolling summers shines upon 
The precious tub; the liquid turns to vapor, 
That fogs the face of many a daily paper, 
And when Commencement changes B. to M., 
The mind has reached the density of cream. 
More years; and LL.D. — or D.D. was it? 
Denotes a solid crystalline deposit 
Of thoughts and trite opinions simmered down, 
And many a sage reflection not his own. 
But still the Doctor's caput holds no more 
Than did the graduate's in years before." 

So says some sombre sage, but ne'er will I 

Believe his dismal tale or prophecy. 

I hold these titles proof of something done — 

Acquirements made, or battles fought and won. 

And tho' I spur my steed until he sweats, 

I'll prove Magister merits all he gets. 

Behold the graduate Commencement day, 

And still go with him as he creeps away 

To humbler scenes. At first a polished boot 

Inwraps It's dainty, light, elastic foot. 

A broadcloth coat that fits him like a glove, 

And just as much moustache as ladies love. 

What dull observer — what mere passer-by 

Can fail to see the genius in his eye ? 

His classic brow, his stove-pipe hat, he knows 

Will bring him reverence wheresoe'er he goes. 

Alas ! alas ! three months, or such a matter. 

May show an empty purse, a hungry platter. 

No school engaged — no thousand dollars clear 

No sinecure with all he wants a year. 

The time creeps on; the fates are unpropitious ; 

Committee men begin to be suspicious. 

No friendly word or deed — no fond embraces ; 

He feels his lines are cast in chilly places. 

'Tis here he learns the first post-graduate art, 

Of bearing well the prick of Fortune's dart. 

Then ars secunda is the art of living; 
Comprised in taking e'er, but never giving. 
Think not of mystic moral things I mutter, 
For ars secunda treats of bread and butter — 
The rate of rents, the price of meat and tea, 
And various things that plague him mightily — 



Things never thought of 'mid these granite hills, 
In hall and club, where uncle paid the bills. 
From off this milk and honey high plateau 
He tumbles to starvation rocks below. 
Full well I deem the man deserves a cheer, 
Who lives thereon the first and second year; 
And should he beat starvation winters three, 
For this alone he merits his degree. 

Anon he mounts the pedagogic stool, 
To learn ars tertia. — Yes, he got a school 
The second spring — agreed to teach for life, 
And pay, each year, unto the chairman's wife 
A square fifteen per cent, of all he made ; 
Forgive the man ; 'twas all the chance he had. 
A strongly rural place, a woody region, 
Where children and mosquitoes by the legion 
Did swarm about him. There he strove to guide 
Those wayward colts ; but oft his spirit sighed 
To see them dull and staring, stupid, idle — 
More need of whip and spur than bit and bridle. 

He learns to punish tricks he once did practice ; 
His conversation bristles like a cactus 
With spines of sharp correction and reproof; 
Yet seldom speaks ; is somewhat grave and gruff. 
But when he speaks, celestial gods, fly low ; 
There's something coming that you ought to know. 

Now, art the fourth. Oh ! wondrous mystic science ! 
That sets all rule and reason at defiance! 
That makes your inclination seem your duty; 
That sees in rouge and wrinkles classic beauty. 
That bids the soul forget all other arts ; 
O, ars amoris ! Queen of human hearts ! 

Thus far, to-day, before the powers, I read 
My catalogue. "Enough," the speaker said; 
"All baccalaurei, three years old or more, 
Who claim to own and know these artes four, 
Come forth ! Why ask the ancient seven, 
Since now the fourth is but a step from heaven? 
Behold, I dub you each and all A.M." 
And sealed the business with a loud ahem. 

See now, ye Masters all, I told you true ; 
The honor's given where the honor's due. 



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